
Directory
Core Faculty
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)





Vicky Kalogera
Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Director of CIERA, Director of the SkAI Institute

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)

Department of Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)

CIERA

Kari Frank
Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor




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

Meng Sun
Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor at The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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)





















































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, Director of the SkAI Institute

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, Director of the SkAI Institute




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


Maria Kokkori
Research Associate Professor

Ermin Wei
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Statistics (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)

Noelle Samia
Associate Professor
CIERA


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

Chase Kimball
Machine Learning Engineer at Topstep

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

Meng Sun
Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor at The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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
The Adler Planetarium

The NSF-Simons SkAI Institute
