Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)

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Core Astronomy Faculty

Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Ryan Chornock

Associate Professor

chornock@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman Avenue, 8069

Claude-André Faucher-Giguère

Associate Professor

Phone: (847) 467-4647

cgiguere@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8067

Wen-fai Fong

Assistant Professor

Phone: (847) 467-4597

wfong@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8063

Vicky Kalogera

Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Director of CIERA

Phone: (847) 491-5669

vicky@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8071

Shane Larson

Research Associate Professor, Associate Director of CIERA

Phone: (847) 467-4305

s.larson@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8045

Yoram Lithwick

Associate Professor

y-lithwick@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8065

Raffaella Margutti

Associate Professor

Phone: (847) 491-8637

raffaella.margutti@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8059

Dave Meyer

Charles Deering McCormick Professor

Phone: (847) 491-4516

davemeyer@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8011

Giles Novak

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-8645

g-novak@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8057

Fred Rasio

Joseph Cummings Professor

Phone: (847) 491-7904

rasio@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8005

Sasha Tchekhovskoy

Assistant Professor

Phone: (847) 491-3103

atchekho@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8055

Melville Ulmer

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-5633

m-ulmer2@northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn 3B

Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-8147

zadeh@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F215

Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics (McCormick School of Engineering)

Daniel Lecoanet

Assistant Professor

daniel.lecoanet@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M426

Faculty

CIERA

Christopher Berry

Research Assistant Professor

christopher.berry@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8051

Giacomo Fragione

Research Assistant Professor

giacomo.fragione@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8003

Kari Frank

Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor

Phone: (847) 467-3178

kari.frank@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8007

Aaron Geller

Research Assistant Professor

Phone: (847) 467-6233

a-geller@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8019

Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Deborah Brown

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Phone: (847) 467-5789

d-brown4@northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn 10

Eric Dahl

Associate Professor / Joint with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Phone: (847) 467-1989

cdahl@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F419

André de Gouvêa

Professor

Phone: (847) 467-6462

degouvea@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F426

Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

Associate Professor

Phone: (847) 467-3511

enectali@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F263

Andrew Geraci

Associate Professor

Phone: (847) 467-6673

andrew.geraci@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F135

Kristian Hahn

Associate Professor

Phone: (847) 467-8847

kristian.hahn@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F115

Ian Low

Professor / Joint with Argonne National Laboratory

Phone: (847) 467-2618

ilow@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F417

Adilson Motter

Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor

Phone: (847) 491-4611

motter@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F323

Brian Odom

Associate Professor

Phone: (847) 467-5452

b-odom@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F137

Frank Petriello

Professor / Joint with Argonne National Laboratory

Phone: (847) 467-3196

f-petriello@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F421

Michael Schmitt

Department Chair, Professor

Phone: (847) 467-6593

m-schmitt@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F113

Michael Smutko

Professor of Instruction

Phone: (847) 491-4568

m-smutko@northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn 9A

Ron Taam

Professor Emeritus

Phone: (847) 491-7528

r-taam@northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn 10

Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Craig Bina

W.V. Jones II Professor

Phone: (847) 491-5097

craig@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F297/F299

Neal Blair

Professor, Joint Appointment in Civil & Environmental Engineering

Phone: (847) 491-8790

n-blair@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech A228

Daniel Horton

Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Phone: (847) 467-6185

daniel.horton@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F289/F290

Matthew Hurtgen

Professor, Department Chair

Phone: (847) 491-7539

matt@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F392/F393

Andrew D. Jacobson

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-3132

adj@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F396/F398

Donna Jurdy

Professor Emeritus

Phone: (847) 491-7163

donna@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F496/F497

Magdalena Osburn

Assistant Professor

Phone: (847) 491-4254

maggie@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F291/F292

Brad Sageman

Professor

Phone: (847) 467-2257

brad@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F397/F399

Seth Stein

William Deering Professor

seth@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F498/F499

Suzan van der Lee

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Computing

Phone: (847) 491-8183

suzan@earth.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech F494/F495

Department of Statistics (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Sandy Zabell

Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Statistics and Mathematics

Phone: (847) 491-5564

zabell@math.northwestern.edu

Office: Lunt 227

Department of Chemistry (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

SonBinh T. Nguyen

Professor

Phone: (847) 467-3347

stn@northwestern.edu

Office: Ryan 2015

Thomas V. O’Halloran

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-5060

t-ohalloran@northwestern.edu

Office: Silverman 4611

George Schatz

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-5657

g-schatz@northwestern.edu

Office: Ryan 4017

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)

Alok Choudhary

Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor

Phone: (847) 467-4129

a-choudhary@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech L469

Peter Dinda

Professor

Phone: (847) 467-7859

pdinda@northwestern.edu

Michael Horn

Associate Professor

Phone: (617) 803-5501

michael-horn@northwestern.edu

Office: Annenberg 336

Aggelos Katsaggelos

Joseph Cummings Professor

Phone: (847) 491-7164

aggk@eecs.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M468

Gokhan Memik

Professor

Phone: (847) 467-1168

g-memik@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech L475

Hooman Mohseni

AT&T Professor of Information Technology

Phone: (847) 491-7108

hmohseni@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M250

Manijeh Razeghi

Walter P. Murphy Professor

Phone: (847) 491-7251

razeghi@eecs.northwestern.edu

Office: Cook Hall 4051

Selim Shahriar

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-5306

shahriar@eecs.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M248

Uri Wilensky

Lorraine Morton Professor

Phone: (847) 467-3818

uri@northwestern.edu

Office: Annenberg 337

Ying Wu

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-2901

yingwu@eecs.northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M322

Department of Materials Science & Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)

Erik Luijten

Professor, Department Chair

luijten@northwestern.edu

Office: Cook Hall 2045

Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Lawyer Taylor Professor

Phone: (847) 491-7801

m-olvera@northwestern.edu

Office: Cook Hall 2036

Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics (McCormick School of Engineering)

Daniel M. Abrams

Associate Professor

dmabrams@northwestern.edu

Alvin Bayliss

Professor

a-bayliss@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M466

Erik Luijten

Professor, Department Chair

luijten@northwestern.edu

Office: Cook Hall 2045

Vladimir Volpert

Professor

Phone: (847) 491 3345

v-volpert@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M452

Department of Mechanical Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)

Jian Cao

Cardiss Collins Professor; Associate Vice President for Research; Director of NIMSI

Phone: (847) 467-1032

jcao@northestern.edu

Office: Tech A214

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)

Luís A. Nunes Amaral

Erastus Otis Haven Professor

Phone: (847) 491-7850

amaral@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech E136

Higher Education Administration & Policy (School of Education & Social Policy)

Lois Trautvetter

Professor

Phone: (847) 491-3901

l-trautvetter@northwestern.edu

Office: Annenberg 142

Learning Sciences (School of Education & Social Policy)

Michael Horn

Associate Professor

Phone: (617) 803-5501

michael-horn@northwestern.edu

Office: Annenberg 336

Uri Wilensky

Lorraine Morton Professor

Phone: (847) 467-3818

uri@northwestern.edu

Office: Annenberg 337

External

Sourav Chatterjee

Visiting Scholar, Reader at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

sourav.c@tifr.res.in

Laura Trouille

Research Affiliate, Director of Citizen Science at The Adler Planetarium

l-trouille@northwestern.edu

Postdocs

CIERA

Kate Alexander

NASA Einstein Fellow

kate.alexander@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8061

Evan Anders

Postdoctoral Fellow

evan.anders@northwestern.edu

Jeff Andrews

Postdoctoral Fellow

jeffrey.andrews@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8053

Adriano Baldeschi

Postdoctoral Associate

adriano.baldeschi@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8035

Marc Berthoud

Visiting Scholar

berthoud@astro.uchicago.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8039

Peter Blanchard

Postdoctoral Fellow

peter.blanchard@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8061

Joe Bright

Astrophysicist

joe.bright@northwestern.edu

Deanne Coppejans

Postdoctoral Associate

deanne.coppejans@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8037

Erin Cox

Postdoctoral Associate

erin.cox@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8039

Maya Fishbach

NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow

maya.fishbach@northwestern.edu

Ore Gottlieb

Visiting Scholar

ore@northwestern.edu

Mike Grudić

Postdoctoral Fellow

michael.grudic@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8061

L. Clifton (Cliff) Johnson

Postdoctoral Fellow

lcj@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8003

Luke Zoltan Kelley

Lindheimer Fellow

lzkelley@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8017

Charlie Kilpatrick

Postdoctoral Associate

ckilpatrick@northwestern.edu

Emily Leiner

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Fellow

emily.leiner@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8047

Adam Miller

LSST Data Science Fellow; Data Science Fellowship Program Director

Phone: (847) 491-3735

amiller@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8015

Diego Munoz

Postdoctoral Fellow

diego.munoz@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8053

Kerry Paterson

Postdoctoral Associate

kerry.paterson@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8031

Ying Qin

SNF Fellow

ying.qin@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8041

Sukrit Ranjan

Postdoctoral Fellow

sukrit.ranjan@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman Avenue, 8041

Alicia Rouco Escorial

Postdoctoral Associate

alicia.rouco.escorial@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8031

Juan Gabriel Serra Perez

Postdoctoral Associate

jgserra@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8037

Patrick Sheehan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: (847) 491-3735

psheehan@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8015

Tjitske Starkenburg

Postdoctoral Fellow

tjitske.starkenburg@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8047

Michael Stroh

Postdoctoral Associate

michael.stroh@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8035

Giacomo Terreran

Postdoctoral Associate

giacomo.terreran@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8037

Michelle Vick

Postdoctoral Fellow

michelle.birch@northwestern.edu

Sarah Wellons

Postdoctoral Fellow

sarah.wellons@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8047

Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Nancy Aggarwal

CIERA Fellow, CFP Postdoctoral Fellow

nancy.aggarwal@northwestern.edu

Office: Mudd 1171 / Tech F211 / 1800 Sherman, 8053

Rocco Coppejans

COFI Fellow

Phone: 847-467-0065

rocco.coppejans@northwestern.edu

Office: F155

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)

Iman Hassani Nia

W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellow

nia@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech L359

Min Su Park

W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellow

min-su.park@northwestern.edu

Office: Tech M234/244

External

Chris Pankow

Visiting Scholar, Data Scientist II at at OpenX

christopher.pankow@northwestern.edu

Graduate Students

Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Dany Atallah

Graduate Student

DanyAtallah2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8025

Michael Bueno

Graduate Student, CIERA BoV Graduate Fellow

Phone: 847-467-4886

michaelbueno2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8034B

Lindsey Byrne

Graduate Student

LindseyByrne2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8030A

Matthew Carney

Graduate Student

MatthewCarney2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8034A

Gabriel Casabona

Graduate Student

GabrielCasabona2025@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn 22

Eve Chase

Graduate Student

EveChase2021@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8029

Lindsay DeMarchi

Graduate Student

ldemarchi@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8038C

Joshua Fuhrman

Graduate Student

JoshuaFuhrman2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn 5

Monica Gallegos Garcia

Graduate Student

MonicaGallegosGarcia2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8036A

Alexa Gordon

Graduate Student

AlexaGordon2026@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Alex Gurvich

Graduate Student

AGurvich@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8027

Aprajita Hajela

Graduate Student

AprajitaHajela2015@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8027

Danat Issa

Graduate Student

DanatIssa2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8038D

Wynn Jacobson-Galán

Graduate Student

WynnJacobson-galan2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Emma Kaufman

Graduate Student

EmmaKaufman2026@u.northwestern.edu

Chase Kimball

Graduate Student

CharlesKimball2012@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8029

Fulya Kiroglu

Graduate Student

FulyaKiroglu2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Aretaios (Aris) Lalakos

Graduate Student

AretaiosLalakos2022@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8033

Dennis Lee

Graduate Student

DennisLee2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8036C

Camille Liotine

Graduate Student

CamilleLiotine2026@u.northwestern.edu

Beverly Lowell

Graduate Student

BeverlyLowell2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8038A

Miguel Martinez

Graduate Student

miguelmartinez2025@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8032D

David Matthews

Graduate Student

david.matthews@northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Joseph Michail

Graduate Student

JoeMichail2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Anya Nugent

Graduate Student

AnyaNugent2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8038F

Nick Kaaz

Graduate Student

NicholasOmahen2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Jillian Rastinejad

Graduate Student

JillianRastinejad2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Jeremy Rath

Graduate Student

JeremyRath2020@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8025

Monica Rizzo

Graduate Student

mxr5584@rit.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8036D

Kyle Rocha

Graduate Student

KyleRocha2024@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8038E

Genevieve Schroeder

Graduate Student

GenevieveSchroeder@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8036B

Huei Sears

Graduate Student

hueisears2024@u.northwestern.edu

Kierstin Sorenson

Graduate Student

KierstinSorensen2024@u.northwestern.edu

Jacob Sprague

Graduate Student

JacobSprague2021@u.northwestern.edu

Office: Dearborn

Candice Stauffer

Graduate Student

CandiceStauffer2023@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8038B

Imran Sultan

Graduate Student

ImranSultan2025@u.northwestern.edu

Elizabeth Teng

Graduate Student

ElizabethTeng2025@u.northwestern.edu

Newlin Weatherford

Riedel Family Graduate Fellow

NewlinWeatherford2017@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8032C

Paul Williams

Graduate Student

PaulWilliams2015@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8049

Yuchan Yang

Graduate Student

YuchanYang2020@u.northwestern.edu

Shi (Claire) Ye

Graduate Student

ShiYe2015@u.northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8027

Weitian Yu

Graduate Student

WeitianYu2020@u.northwestern.edu

Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Howard Chen

Graduate Student

Phone: (626) 991-5440

HowardChen2021@u.northwestern.edu

Staff

CIERA

Peter Anglada

Financial Administrator

Phone: (847) 467-3020

p-anglada@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8009

Scott Coughlin

Computational Specialist

Phone: (847) 491-3711

s-coughlin@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8021

Kari Frank

Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor

Phone: (847) 467-3178

kari.frank@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8007

Gretchen L. Oehlschlager

Communications & Events Coordinator

Phone: (847) 467-1338

glo@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8013

Angela Peperzak

Information Coordinator & Assistant to the Director

Phone: (847) 491-8646

angela.peperzak@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8073

Lisa Raymond

Financial Assistant

Phone: (847) 491-8646

lisa.raymond@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8073

Alexandria Romasanta

Education and Outreach Program Assistant

Phone: (847)467-0352

alexandria.romasanta@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8073

Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Vicky Kalogera

Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Director of CIERA

Phone: (847) 491-5669

vicky@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8071

Shane Larson

Research Associate Professor, Associate Director of CIERA

Phone: (847) 467-4305

s.larson@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8045

Other

Lilliana Altiva de Souza

Information Technology Aide (Work-Study)

Kyle Chisholm

Financial Aide (Work-study)

Lydia Rivers

Media & Events Aide (Work-study)

Divyanshi (Divya) Sharma

Website and Communications Aide (Work-study)

William Vercellone

Office Services Aide (Work-study)

Alumni

Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Rocco Coppejans

COFI Fellow

Phone: 847-467-0065

rocco.coppejans@northwestern.edu

Office: F155

Wen-fai Fong

Assistant Professor

Phone: (847) 467-4597

wfong@northwestern.edu

Office: 1800 Sherman, 8063

External

Daniel Anglés-Alcázar

Flatiron Research Fellow at Flatiron Center for Computational Astrophysics

Fabio Antonini

STFC E. Rutherford Fellow at University of Surrey

Adrian Barker

Lecturer at University of Leeds

Nate Bode

Director at Inflection Equity

Nicholas Chapman

Research Analyst at Center for Naval Analyses

Sourav Chatterjee

Visiting Scholar, Reader at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

sourav.c@tifr.res.in

Ian Christie

Principal FTL Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman

Nicolas Cowan

Assistant Professor at the McGill Space Institute at McGill University

Will Farr

Lecturer, Birmingham Fellow at University of Birmingham

Diego Fazi

High School Teacher of Mathematics and Physics at Liceo Artistico "Edgardo Mannucci"

Laura Fissel

Assistant Professor at Queens University

Tassos Fragkos

SNSF Ambizione Fellow at Geneva Observatory

Evghenii Gaburov

Computer Software Engineer at Intel Corporation

Pierre Gratia

Daryl Haggard

Assistant Professor at the McGill Space Institute at McGill University

Elizabeth Hicks

Research Scientist at Epsilon Delta Labs

Nate Kaib

Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma

Kyle Kremer

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Observatories and Caltech

Wing-Kit (Kit) Lee

Insight Data Science Fellow

Tyson Littenberg

Research Astrophysicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Pablo Marchant

Smadar Naoz

Assistant Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles

Ben Nelson

Data Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Chris Pankow

Visiting Scholar, Data Scientist II at at OpenX

christopher.pankow@northwestern.edu

Alex Richings

Laura Sampson

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University

Fabio Santos

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mario Spera

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste

mario.spera@northwestern.edu

Jason Steffen

Associate Professor at University of Nevada

Jonathan Stern

Laura Trouille

Research Affiliate, Director of Citizen Science at The Adler Planetarium

l-trouille@northwestern.edu

Stefan Umbreit

Francesca Valsecchi

Data Scientist at Datascope Analytics

Junfeng Wang

Minjiang Scholar Professor at Xiamen University in China

Youwei Yao

Postdoctoral Scholar in the Space Nanotechnology Lab at the MIT Kavli Institute at MIT