Directory
Core Astronomy Faculty
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Vicky Kalogera
Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor, Director of CIERA
Phone: (847) 491-5669
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8071
Shane Larson
Research Associate Professor, Associate Director of CIERA
Phone: (847) 467-4305
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8045
Faculty
CIERA
Kari Frank
Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Phone: 847 467 3178
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8007
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Eric Dahl
Associate Professor / Joint with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Phone: (847) 467-1989
Office: Tech F419
Frank Petriello
Professor / Joint with Argonne National Laboratory
Phone: (847) 467-3196
Office: Tech F421
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Neal Blair
Professor, Joint Appointment in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Phone: (847) 491-8790
Office: Tech A228
Daniel Horton
Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Phone: (847) 467-6185
Office: Tech F289/F290
Suzan van der Lee
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Computing
Phone: (847) 491-8183
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
Office: Lunt 227
Department of Chemistry (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Materials Science & Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics (McCormick School of Engineering)
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
Office: Tech A214
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Higher Education Administration & Policy (School of Education & Social Policy)
Learning Sciences (School of Education & Social Policy)
Obstetrics & Gynecology (Feinberg School of Medicine)
Teresa K. Woodruff
TGS Dean and Associate Provost; Thomas J. Watkins Professor
Phone: (847) 491-8502
Office: The Graduate School, 1-539
External
Postdocs
CIERA
Nancy Aggarwal
CIERA Fellow, CFP Postdoctoral Fellow
Office: Mudd 1171 / Tech F211 / 1800 Sherman, 8053
Adam Miller
LSST Data Science Fellow; Data Science Fellowship Program Director
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8015
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Nancy Aggarwal
CIERA Fellow, CFP Postdoctoral Fellow
Office: Mudd 1171 / Tech F211 / 1800 Sherman, 8053
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
External
Sukrit Ranjan
Visiting Scholar, SCOL Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Graduate Students
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Staff
CIERA
Kari Frank
Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Phone: 847 467 3178
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8007
Gretchen L. Oehlschlager
Communications & Events Coordinator
Phone: (847) 467-1338
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8013
Michelle Paulsen
Director of Education, Outreach, and Communications Programs
Phone: (847) 579-9240
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8013
Lisa Raymond
Information Coordinator; Assistant to the Director
Phone: (847) 491-8646
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8073
Alexandria Romasanta
Education and Outreach Program Assistant
Phone: (847)467-0352
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
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8071
Shane Larson
Research Associate Professor, Associate Director of CIERA
Phone: (847) 467-4305
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)
William Vercellone
Office Services Aide (Work-study)
Alumni
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
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
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
Theoretical and Computational Astrophysicist at Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève
Evghenii Gaburov
Computer Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Pierre Gratia
Postdoctoral Fellow
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
Wing-Kit (Kit) Lee
Postdoctoral Associate
Tyson Littenberg
Research Astrophysicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Smadar Naoz
Assistant Professor
Ben Nelson
Data Scientist
Laura Sampson
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University
Jason Steffen
Associate Professor at University of Nevada
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