Former Penn State Group Members and Collaborators



Guang Yang (Penn State graduate student; now at Texas A&M University as a postdoctoral fellow)



Vivek Mariappan (Penn State postdoctoral researcher; now at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore as an assistant professor)



Labani Mallick (Penn State postdoctoral researcher)



Chien-Ting Chen (Penn State postdoctoral researcher; now at MSFC as a research scientist)



Kate Grier (Penn State postdoctoral researcher; now at the University of Arizona as a postdoctoral researcher)



Zach Hemler (Penn State undergraduate student; now at the University of Florida as a computational astrophysics researcher)



Fabio Vito (Penn State postdoctoral researcher; now at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa as a postdoctoral researcher)



Jon Trump (Penn State Hubble Fellow; now at the University of Connecticut as an assistant professor)



Mouyuan "Eric" Sun (Penn State long-term visiting student from Xiamen University; now at Xiamen University as an assistant professor)



Bin Luo (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at Nanjing University as a professor)



Amy Scott (Penn State postdoctoral research associate)



Nurten Filiz Ak (Penn State graduate student; now at Erciyes University as an assistant professor)



Jianfeng Wu (Penn State graduate student; now at Xiamen University as a professor)



Yongquan Xue (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at the University of Science and Technology of China as a professor)



Cristian Saez (Penn State postdoctoral research associate)



Monica Young (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at Sky & Telescope as the News Editor)



Bin Luo (Penn State graduate student; now at Nanjing University as a professor)



Brendan Miller (Penn State graduate student; now at US Bank as a data scientist)



Ranjan Vasudevan (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at Element Energy as a Senior Consultant and Software Developer)



Harrison Gonzaga (Penn State undergraduate student)



Megan Comins (Penn State graduate student; now at Pekin Insurance as a data scientist)



David Rafferty (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at the University of Hamburg as a staff member)



Laura Birzan (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at the University of Hamburg as a postdoctoral research associate)



Rob Gibson (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at Hitachi Ventara as a specialist software development engineer)



Ohad Shemmer (Penn State research associate; now at the University of North Texas as an associate professor)



Bret Lehmer (Penn State graduate student; now at the University of Arkansas as an associate professor)



Aaron Steffen (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon as an associate professor)



Dennis Just (Penn State undergraduate student; now at Pima Community College as a professor)



Iskra Strateva (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now in Liestal, Switzerland as a high-school teacher)



Laura Lopez (Penn State graduate student; now at Ohio State University as an assistant professor)



Lee Bassett (Penn State undergraduate student; now at the University of Pennsylvania as an associate professor)



Wentao Wu (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at the Yunnan Observatory as a staff member)



Stefan Immler (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at NASA Headquarters as a civil-servant Program Scientist)



Franz Bauer (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile as an associate professor )



Dave Alexander (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at Durham University as a professor and Head of Astronomy)



Cristian Vignali (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at the Universita di Bologna as an associate professor)



Ann Hornschemeier (Penn State graduate student; now at Goddard Space Flight Center as the X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory Chief)



Sarah Gallagher (Penn State graduate student; now at the University of Western Ontario as a professor)



Jennifer Donley (Penn State undergraduate student; now at Los Alamos National Lab as a staff member)



Matt Collinge (Penn State undergraduate student; now the Deputy Director of the Maryland Space Grant Consortium)



Paul de Naray (Penn State undergraduate student; now at ClearStar Inc. as Director of Cybersecurity)



Shai Kaspi (Penn State postdoctoral research associate; now at Tel Aviv University and the Wise Observatory as a permanent staff member)



Kevin Marshall (Penn State undergraduate student; now at Widener University as an associate professor)



John Feldmeier (Penn State graduate student; now at Youngstown State University as a professor)



Mala Mateen (Penn State undergraduate student; now at the Air Force Research Laboratory)