Scientific Staff and Research Interests
Staff Astronomers
John Mulchaey
Ph.D., 1994, University of Maryland
Andrew Benson
MPhys (physics and astrophysics), 1997, University of Leicester; PhD, 2000, University of Durham
Rebecca Bernstein
B.S. Physics, Princeton (1992); PhD Astrophysics, Caltech (1998)
Guillermo Blanc
B.S. Astronomy, (2004), M.Sc. Astronomy (2006), Universidad de Chile; PhD Astronomy, UT Austin (2011)
Jeff Crane
B.S. Physics, 1997, Arizona State University; M.A. Astronomy, 1999, Ph.D. Astronomy, 2004, University of Virginia
Alan Dressler
B.A. (physics), 1970, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1976, University of California, Santa Cruz
Daniel Kelson
B.S. (astronomy and physics), 1991, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D (astronomy), 1998, University of California, Santa Cruz
Juna Kollmeier
B.S. (physics), 2000, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D (astronomy), 2006, The Ohio State University
Barry Madore
B.S. (astronomy and physics) 1969, University of Southern California; M.Sc. (astronomy), 1971, Ph.D. (astronomy), 1974, University of Toronto
Andrew McWilliam
B.Sc., 1981, London University; M.A., 1984, Ph.D., 1988, University of Texas - Austin
Gus Oemler
A.B., 1969, Princeton University; M.S. and Ph.D., 1974, California Institute of Technology
Eric Persson
B.Sc. (physics), 1966, McGill University; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1972, California Institute of Technology
Anthony Piro
George Preston
B.S. (physics), 1952, Yale University; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1959, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Rauch
Diploma (physics), 1988, Gutenberg University, Mainz; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1992, Cambridge University
Francois Schweizer
Lizentiat (astronomy), 1968, University of Bern; M.A., 1970, Ph.D. (astronomy), 1975, University of California, Berkeley
Stephen Shectman
B.S. (physics), 1969, Yale University; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1973, California Institute of Technology
Josh Simon
B.S. (physics), 1998, Stanford University; M.A. (astrophysics), 2000, Ph.D. (astrophysics), 2005, University of California, Berkeley
Ian Thompson
B.Sc. (physics and astronomy), 1971, M.Sc. (physics and astronomy), 1974, University of British Columbia; Ph.D. (physics and astronomy), 1980, University of Western Ontario
Research Staff
Chris Burns
BSc. Physics, Bishop's University (1994); MSc. Physics, (1995), PhD Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto (2002)
Shannon Patel
Solange Ramirez
B.S. (physics) U. de Chile, 1991; M. S. (astronomy) U. de Chile, 1994; Ph. D. (astronomy and astrophysics) The Ohio State University, 2000; M. S. (systems engineering) University of California, Los Angeles, 2017.
Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates
Louis Abramson
PhD, Astronomy & Astrophysics --- The University of Chicago, 2015
AB, Physics --- Columbia University, 2009
• I was a postdoc at UCLA from 2015 to 2018.
Lauren Anderson
Pavaman Bilgi
B.S. (Aerospace Engineering) 2010, Monash University; M.Sc. (Aeronautics), 2012, Ph.D. (Aeronautics), 2019, California Institute of Technology
Ivanna Escala
- Ph.D., Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology (2020)
- B.S., Physics with Specialization in Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego (2015)
Ylva Goetberg
Tom Holoien
Ph.D., Astronomy --- The Ohio State University, 2017
B.S., Astrophysics --- Rutgers University, 2013
Alicia Lanz
Abigail Polin
- Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 2020
- B.S., Physics, New York University, 2013
Peter Senchyna
- Ph.D. Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Arizona, 2020
- B.S. Physics and Astronomy, University of Washington, 2015
Allison Strom
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2017
MPhil, University of Cambridge, 2011
B.S., University of Arizona, 2010
Gregory Walth
Shengqi Yang
Sept. 2016-May 2021: Ph.D. in Physics at the New York University, New York, NY, USA
Sept. 2012–June 2016: B.S. in Physics at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Fakhri Zahedy
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2019
M.S., The University of Chicago, 2015
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
Social Media and Outreach
Jeff Rich
LCO Support Astronomer
Konstantina Boutsia
Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2008)
Nidia Morrell
Ph.D. in Astronomy, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina (1984)
Dave Osip
B.S. (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences), 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D (Astronomy), 1995, University of Florida
Povilas Palunas
Ph.D. (physics and astronomy), 1996, Rutgers University
