Directory
Core Faculty
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Vicky Kalogera
Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Director of CIERA
Shane L. Larson
Research Professor, Associate Director of CIERA
Giles Novak
Professor, Faculty Director of Northwestern University Research Shop
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics (McCormick School of Engineering)
CIERA
Kari Frank
Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
Associate Faculty
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Suzan van der Lee
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Computing
Department of Chemistry (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Department of Mechanical Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Higher Education Administration & Policy (School of Education & Social Policy)
Affiliate Faculty
Department of Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Neal Blair
Professor, Joint Appointment in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Magdalena Osburn
Associate Professor, Curriculum Chair, and Seminar Coordinator
Department of Statistics (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Sandy Zabell
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Statistics and Mathematics
External Faculty
External
Goni Halevi
Visiting Scholar; Teaching Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
Emily Leiner
Visiting Scholar; Teaching Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
Diego Muñoz
Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University
Sarah Wellons
Visiting Scholar, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Wesleyan
The Adler Planetarium
Samantha Blickhan
Visiting Scholar, Co-Director & Humanities Lead for Zooniverse at The Adler Planetarium
Postdocs
CIERA
Research Staff
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
CIERA
Graduate Students
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Andrea Ceja
Graduate Student
Ed Skrabacz
Graduate Student
Aswin Suresh
Graduate Student
Muqing Wang
Graduate Student
Theodore Wecker
Graduate Student
Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics (McCormick School of Engineering)
Staff
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Vicky Kalogera
Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Director of CIERA
Shane L. Larson
Research Professor, Associate Director of CIERA
CIERA
Kari Frank
Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Christine Ross
Program Assistant / Assistant to the Director
James Schottelkotte
Education & Outreach Coordinator
William Vercellone
Information Coordinator
Other
NU SkAI Personnel
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Vicky Kalogera
Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Director of CIERA
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Maria Kokkori
Research Associate Professor
Ermin Wei
Associate Professor
CIERA
Department of Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Statistics (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Noelle Samia
Associate Professor
The NSF-Simons SkAI Institute
Postdoctoral Alumni
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
CIERA
External
Nancy Aggarwal
Tenure-Track Faculty at UC Davis
Kate Alexander
Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
Evan Anders
Postdoctoral Scholar at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), UCSB
Jeff Andrews
Tenure-Track Faculty at University of Florida
Daniel Anglés-Alcázar
Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut
Fabio Antonini
STFC E. Rutherford Fellow at University of Surrey
Vishal Baibhav
NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University
Sharan Banagiri
Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash
Adrian Barker
Professor at University of Leeds
Peter Blanchard
Research Title at Harvard University
Sarah Blunt
NSF Fellow at UCSC
Nate Bode
Director, Inflection Equity
Deepika Bollimpalli
Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
Joe Bright
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
Nicholas Chapman
Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation
Ian Christie
Senior Principal Transformational Physicist at Northrop Grumman
Deanne Coppejans
Assistant Professor, University of Warwick
Nicolas Cowan
Associate Professor at the McGill Space Institute at McGill University
Will Farr
Associate Professor at Stony Brook University
Diego Fazi
High School Teacher of Mathematics and Physics at Liceo Artistico "Edgardo Mannucci"
Maya Fishbach
Assistant Professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto
Laura Fissel
Assistant Professor at Queen's University
Tassos Fragkos
Assistant Professor at the Geneva Observatory
Evghenii Gaburov
Computer Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Pierre Gratia
Quantitative Researcher at J.P. Morgan
Mike Grudić
NASA Hubble Fellow, Carnegie Observatories
Daryl Haggard
Associate Professor at the McGill Space Institute at McGill University
Goni Halevi
Visiting Scholar; Teaching Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Hicks
Research Scientist at Epsilon Delta Labs
Jonatan Jacquemin Ide
Postdoctoral Alumni
Nate Kaib
Associate Professor at University of Oklahoma
Luke Zoltan Kelley
Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Kyle Kremer
Assistant Professor at UCSD
Wing-Kit (Kit) Lee
Senior Data Scientist at Cambridge Mobile Telematics
Emily Leiner
Visiting Scholar; Teaching Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
Tyson Littenberg
Research Astrophysicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Pablo Marchant
Postdoc at Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven
Diego Muñoz
Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University
Smadar Naoz
Associate Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles
Ben Nelson
Data Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Chris Pankow
Data Scientist II at OpenX
Kerry Paterson
Euclid Calibration Support Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Ying Qin
Faculty, School of Physics and Electronic Information, Anhui Normal University
Sukrit Ranjan
Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
Alex Richings
Lecturer, University of Hull
Alicia Rouco Escorial
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, European Space Agency.
Laura Sampson
Senior Biostatistician at Natera
Fabio Santos
Publisher, Springer Nature Group
Patrick Sheehan
Assistant Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Mario Spera
Assistant Professor at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste
Jason Steffen
Assistant Professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jonathan Stern
Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University
Giacomo Terreran
Postdoctoral Scholar, Las Cumbres Observatory
Stefan Umbreit
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Mediaocean
Francesca Valsecchi
Data Science Lead at Planet FWD
Michelle Vick
Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University
Junfeng Wang
Minjiang Scholar Professor at Xiamen University in China
Sarah Wellons
Visiting Scholar, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Wesleyan
Nastasha Wijers
Postdoc at University of Bonn
Youwei Yao
Research Scientist in the Space Nanotechnology Lab at the MIT Kavli Institute at MIT