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
Phone: (847) 491-5669
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8071
Giles Novak
Professor, Faculty Director of Northwestern University Research Shop
Phone: (847) 491-8645
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8057
CIERA
Tarraneh Eftekhari
Assistant Director of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8051
Kari Frank
Sr. Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Phone: (847) 467-3178
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8007
Department of Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics (McCormick School of Engineering)
Associate Faculty
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Department of Chemistry (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Suzan van der Lee
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Computing
Phone: (847) 491-8183
Office: Tech F494/F495
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Mechanical Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Higher Education Administration & Policy (School of Education & Social Policy)
Research Computing and Data Services (Information Technology)
Aaron Geller
Lead Data Scientist and Astrophysicist
Phone: (847) 467-6233
Office: 2223 Tech Dr., Suite 2220
Affiliate Faculty
Department of Classics (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Neal Blair
Professor, Joint Appointment in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Phone: (847) 491-8790
Office: Tech A228
Magdalena Osburn
Associate Professor, Curriculum Chair, and Seminar Coordinator
Phone: (847) 491-4254
Office: Tech F291/F292
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 Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
External Faculty
External
Goni Halevi
Visiting Scholar; Teaching Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
Shane L. Larson
Adjunct Professor; Professor and Director of Integrated Engineering and Applied Science Projects at Clarkson University
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
The Adler Planetarium
Samantha Blickhan
Visiting Scholar, Co-Director & Humanities Lead for Zooniverse at The Adler Planetarium
Postdocs
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
CIERA
NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI Institute)
Jimena Gonzalez
SkAI Postdoctoral Associate
Yongseok Jo
SkAI Postdoctoral Fellow
External
Research Staff
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
CIERA
Megan Newsome
REU Co-Director and Visiting Researcher
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
Phone: (847) 491-5669
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8071
CIERA
Tarraneh Eftekhari
Assistant Director of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8051
Kari Frank
Sr. Director of Operations of CIERA, Research Assistant Professor
Phone: (847) 467-3178
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8007
Christine Ross
Program Assistant / Assistant to the Director
Phone: 847-491-3800
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8073
James Schottelkotte
Education & Outreach Coordinator
Phone: (847) 491-2622
Office: 1800 Sherman, 7411
William Vercellone
Information Coordinator
Phone: (847) 491-8646
Office: 1800 Sherman Ave, Front Desk
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
Phone: (847) 491-5669
Office: 1800 Sherman, 8071
CIERA
Department of Statistics (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
Noelle Samia
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science (McCormick School of Engineering)
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (McCormick School of Engineering)
Maria Kokkori
Research Associate Professor
Ermin Wei
Associate Professor
Research Computing and Data Services (Information Technology)
Aaron Geller
Lead Data Scientist and Astrophysicist
Phone: (847) 467-6233
Office: 2223 Tech Dr., Suite 2220
NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI Institute)
Postdoctoral Alumni
Department of Physics & Astronomy (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences)
CIERA
NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI Institute)
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
Ariadna Murguia Berthier
Postdoctoral Alumni
Sylvia Biscoveanu
Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Peter Blanchard
Research Scientist 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
Ore Gottlieb
Assistant Professor, MIT
Pierre Gratia
Quantitative Researcher at J.P. Morgan
Mike Grudić
Associate Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics
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
Bryan Scott
Postdoctoral Alumni
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
Michael Stroh
Staff at NRAO
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
Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Wesleyan
Nastasha Wijers
Postdoc at University of Bonn
Caitlin Witt
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Youwei Yao
Research Scientist in the Space Nanotechnology Lab at the MIT Kavli Institute at MIT
The Adler Planetarium