My Students and Postdocs and Other Collaborators

Including selected Quotes by my Colleagues

Present

Nader Haghighipour
BSc 1989, University of Tehran. PhD 1999, Univ. Missouri-Columbia. Now Assistant Astronomer in Astrobiology, Univ. Hawaii. Joint Publications

Jan Kleyna (no web page)
AB, 1992, Princeton University. PhD, 1998, Harvard University. Previously Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Cambridge, England. Now Astrobiology Postdoctoral Scholar at UH. Joint publications

Pedro Lacerda
PhD Leiden University 2005, now Planetary Astronomy Postdoc at University of Hawaii. Joint publications

Nuno Peixinho
PhD University of Paris 2005, now Planetary Astronomy Postdoc at University of Coimbra, Portugal and University of Hawaii. Joint Publications

Rachel Stevenson
MSc 2006, University College London

Bin Yang
BS, 2000. Beijing Normal University. MS, 2003. National Astronomical Observatory of China. PhD Thesis "Nature of Dark Matter on the Surfaces of Small Solar System Bodies". Joint Publications

Weijun Zheng
PhD 2004, Johns Hopkins University, then Astrobiology Postdoc, Uni. Hawaii., now Assistant Prof, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Joint Publications

Past

Jun Chen
BS, 1990, Beijing University, China. PhD, 1997, University of Hawaii. PhD dissertation: "A search for Trojan asteroids". First position: Software Developer, NETdelivery Corporation, Boulder, Colorado. Joint publications

Yan Fernandez
BS, 1993, California Institute of Technology. MS, 1995, University of Maryland. PhD, 1999, University of Maryland. Currently: Assistant Professor, Univ. Central Florida. Joint publications

Henry H. Hsieh (aka: H-cubed)
BA, 2000, Harvard University. PhD 2007 University of Hawaii. First position: Postdoc at Queen's University Belfast. Photo Thesis: "Comets amongst the asteroids: icy planetesimals in the inner Solar System" Joint publications

Paul Kalas
BS, 1989, University of Michigan. PhD, 1997, University of Hawaii. PhD dissertation: "A Coronagraphic Survey for Circumstellar Disks around Main Sequence and Pre-main Sequence Stars". First position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany. Now Assistant Research Astronomer at U. C. Berkeley. Joint publications

Jane Luu Interview
BA, Stanford University. PhD 1992, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD dissertation: "Physical Properties of Small Solar System Bodies". First position: Harvard-Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow. Joint publications

Karen Meech
BA, 1981, Rice University. PhD 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PhD dissertation: "Activity in Distant Comets". First position: Assistant Astronomer at University of Hawaii. Now: Astronomer at University of Hawaii. Joint publications

Daniel Potter
BS, 1994, University of Colorado. MS, 2000, University of Hawaii. PhD, 2003, University of Hawaii. PhD dissertation: "A search for debris disks with a dual channel adaptive optics imaging polarimeter". First position: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Arizona.

Matthew Senay
AB, 1983, St. Louis University. MS, 1990, San Diego State University. PhD, 1997, University of Hawaii. PhD dissertation: "Sources of Activity in Distant Comets". First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts. Joint publications

Scott Sander Sheppard (aka: S-cubed)
BS, 1998, Oberlin College. MS, 2001, University of Hawaii. PhD 2004 University of Hawaii. dissertation: "The Jovian System: from satellites to Trojans to Jupiter family comets". Now Astronomer at Carnegie Institute of Washington. Joint publications

Chadwick Trujillo
BS, 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MS, 1998 University of Hawaii. PhD, 2000, University of Hawaii. PhD dissertation: "Bright Objects in the outer Solar System". First position: Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology. Now Science Fellow at Gemini North. Joint publications

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