Grad. # | Ph.D. # | Name | Degree | Field | Year | Advisor | Dissertation/Thesis Title | Current Position (if known) |
1 | | Timothy Werhner | M.S. | Physics | 2005 | Britt | | |
2 | | Jimmy Davis | M.S. | Physics | 2007 | Britt | Frequency Distribution Of Pyroxene Types And A Method To Separate The Composition Of Multiple Pyroxenes In A Sample | |
3 | 1 | Julie Ziffer | Ph.D. | Physics | 2007 | Campins | Near-Infrared Observations Of Comet-Asteroid Transition Objects | Professor at Univ. Southern Maine |
4 | 2 | Ramarao Tata | Ph.D. | Physics | 2009 | Martín | Search, Characterization, And Properties Of Brown Dwarfs | Adjunct Prof. at Ohio Univ. |
5 | 3 | Rohit Deshpande | Ph.D. | Physics | 2010 | Martín | Search For Gas Giants Around Late-M Dwarfs | VP, Data Products & Strategy at J.P. Morgan |
6 | | Kathleen James | M.S. | Physics | 2010 | Colwell | | |
7 | 4 | Robert Macke | Ph.D. | Physics | 2010 | Britt | Survey Of Meteorite Physical Properties Density, Porosity And Magnetic Susceptibility | Curator of the Meteorite Collection, Vatican Obs. |
8 | | Bryce Bolin | M.S. | Physics | 2011 | | | Researcher at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
9 | 5 | Kevin Baillié | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2011 | Colwell | Fine-scale Structures In Saturn’s Rings Waves, Wakes And Ghosts | CNRS Researcher at Obs. de Paris/IMCCE |
10 | | Jean-Marc Denis | M.S. | Physics | 2012 | Fernández | Characterization Of Online Archives Of Astronomical Imaging Vis-a-vis Serendipitous Asteroids, And Their Astrometric Properties | |
11 | 6 | Kevin Stevenson | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2012 | Harrington | Detecting And Characterizing Exoplanets: The GJ 436 And HD 149026 Systems | Astronomer at JHU APL |
12 | 7 | Emily Kramer | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2014 | Fernández | Studying Short-Period Comets and Long-Period Comets Detected by WISE/NEOWISE | Data Scientist at Unum |
13 | 8 | Nathaniel Lust | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2014 | Britt | Creation and Application of Routines for Determining Physical Properties of Asteroids and Exoplanets from Low Signal-To-Noise Data Sets | Professional Specialist at Princeton |
14 | 9 | Kelsey Hargrove | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2015 | Colwell | Spectral Study of Asteroids and Laboratory Simulation of Asteroid Organics | |
15 | 10 | Jasmina Blecic | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2015 | Harrington | Observations, Thermochemical Calculations, and Modeling of Exoplanetary Atmospheres | Postdoctoral Associate at New York Univ. Abu Dhabi |
16 | 11 | Patricio Cubillos | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2015 | Harrington | Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: From Light-curve Observations to Radiative-Transfer Modeling | Research Associate at INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino |
17 | 12 | Tracy Becker | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2016 | Colwell | Saturn’s Rings: Measuring Particle Size Distributions Using Cassini UVIS Occultation Data | Group Leader Research & Development at Southwest Research Institute |
18 | 13 | Akbar Whizin | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2016 | Colwell | Dynamical Formation of Protoplanetesimals | Senior Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute |
19 | 14 | Zoe Landsman | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2017 | Campins | The Physical Properties and Composition of Main-Belt Asteroids from Infrared Spectroscopy | Chief Scientist at Space Resource Technologies |
20 | 15 | Jenna L. Jones | Ph.D. | Physics | 2018 | Fernández | Investigating compositional variations of S-complex near-Earth asteroids: (1627) Ivar | Research Scientist at Naval Information Warfare Systems Command |
21 | 16 | Richard Jerousek | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2018 | Colwell | Determining the Small-scale Structure and Particle Properties in Saturn’s Rings from Stellar and Radio Occultations | Associate Lecturer at UCF |
22 | 17 | Charles Schambeau | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2018 | Fernández | Analysis of Nucleus Properties of the Enigmatic Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 | Assistant Scientist at UCF Florida Space Inst. |
23 | | Keanna Jardine | M.S. | Physics | 2018 | Dove | Asteroid Surfaces: The Importance of Cohesive Forces | Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State |
24 | 18 | Ryan Challener | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2020 | Harrington | Exoplanets: Correlated Noise and Cautionary Tales | Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell Univ. |
25 | 19 | Stephanie Jarmak | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2020 | Colwell | Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Granular Dynamics in Microgravity | Project Scientist for Planetary Science NASA Astrophysics Data System, Harvard CfA |
26 | 20 | Leos Pohl | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2020 | Britt | The Physical Properties of Asteroids | Postdoctoral Researcher at UCF |
27 | | Andrew Malfavon | M.S. | Physics | 2020 | Campins | Space Weathering Simulation Trends on Carbonaceous Chondrites | |
28 | 21 | Wesley Chambers | Ph.D. | Physics | 2020 | Metzger | Experimental and Computational Investigation of Plume Surface Interactions in Vacuum Microgravity | Planetary Scientist at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center |
29 | 22 | Anicia Arredondo | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2021 | Campins | A Spectroscopic Survey of Primitive Main Belt Asteroid Populations | Postdoctoral Researcher at Southwest Research Inst. |
30 | | Isabel Rivera | M.S. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2021 | Colwell | Simulating Ejecta Blown off the Lunar Surface due to Landing Spacecraft using the Mercury N-body Integrator | Science Support Analyst at Space Telescope Science Institute |
31 | | Brian Ferrari | M.S. | Physics | 2021 | Bennett | Utilizing High Throughput Computing Techniques for the Predictions of Spectroscopic Properties of Astrophysically Relevant Molecules | Ph.D. student at Leiden Univ. |
32 | | Katerina Slavicinska | M.S. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2021 | Bennett | The Effects of Aqueous Alteration on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Content in Carbonaceous Chondrites | Ph.D. student at Leiden Univ. |
33 | | Brynn Presler-Marshall | M.S. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2021 | Fernández | An Aphelion Analysis of Comet 2P/Encke | Research Technician at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences |
34 | 23 | Stephanie Eckert | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2022 | Colwell | Characterizing the Particle Size Distribution in Saturn’s Rings using Cassini UVIS Stellar Occultation Data | Visiting Professor at Eckerd College |
35 | | Amy Lebleu-Debartola | M.S. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2022 | Bennett | Raman Excitation Laser Effects of Peak Parameters and Peak Metamorphic Temperatures of Primitive Carbonaceous Chondrites | |
36 | 24 | Michael Himes | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2022 | Harrington | Atmospheric Retrieval: Bayesian methods, machine learning, and application to exoplanets | Postdoctoral fellow at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
37 | | Ryan Galinkin | M.S. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2022 | Donaldson Hanna | Characterizing the Effects of Porosity and Particle Size on TIR Emissivity Spectral Features of Olivines | |
38 | 25 | Vanessa Lowry | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2022 | Donaldson Hanna | Spectral characterization and age of the Moon and primitive asteroids | |
39 | 26 | Olga Harrington Pinto | Ph.D. | Physics | 2023 | Womack | Physical Properties and Chemical Composition of Comets | Postdoctoral researcher at Auburn Univ. |
40 | | Kārlis Šļumba | M.S. | Physics | 2023 | Britt | Development of Regolith Simulants of Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions and Jupiter Trojan Asteroids | PhD student at Univ. of Adelaide |
41 | 27 | Jennifer Larson | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2023 | Fernández | Impact on Infinite Asteroids: Analysis of Ejecta Outcomes in Small Body Binary Systems | Associate Research Scientist at PSI |
42 | 28 | Keanna Jardine | Ph.D. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2023 | Dove | Towards Understanding Cohesion on Asteroid Surfaces: A Study of Adhesion of Micron-sized Planetary Analogues Using an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) with Implications for Sample Return Analysis | Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State |
43 | | Nicholas Piskurich | M.S. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2024 | Donaldson Hanna | Mesmerizing Moon Mysteries: Unraveling the Compositions of Irregular Mare Patches (IMPs) Using Remote Observations | |
44 | | Christopher Tyler Cox | M.S. | Physics, Planetary Sciences Track | 2024 | Brisset | The Case for Photothermal Spectroscopy in Planetary Science | |