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Postdoctoral Researchers

Jason Byrne  PhD, 2010, University of Dublin, Trinity College
        Coronal Mass Ejection Model & Data Analyst Postdoctoral Fellow
        Solar physics
Julien Carron   PhD, 2012, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
        Cosmology Postdoctoral Fellow
        Large-scale structure of the Universe, weak lensing
Hsin-Fang Chiang  PhD, 2011, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
        Low-mass star formation
Patricia Doyle  PhD, 2012, Imperial College London, UK
         Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
         Water in the early solar system, Mn-Cr chronometry, Ti-oxidation states, experimental petrology
Heather Flewelling  PhD, 2009, University of Michigan
        Pan-STARRS PS1SC Postdoctoral Researcher
        Gamma-ray bursts
Lydia Hallis  PhD, 2010, Open University, UK
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Water in the early solar system
David Harrington  PhD, 2008, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
       Spectropolarimetry, instrumentation, stellar & solar physics
Mark Huber  PhD, 2002, University of Wyoming
        Pan-STARRS PS1SC Postdoctoral Researcher
        Transients and variable stars
Regina Jorgenson PhD, 2008, University of California, San Diego
       NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellow
       Galaxy formation and evolution, quasar absorption lines, damped Lyman-alpha systems, interstellar/galactic medium
Jan Kleyna  PhD, 1998, Harvard University
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Main Belt comets, Pan-STARRS moving object software, DIXI mission support
Nicholas McConnell  PhD, 2012, University of California, Berkeley
       Beatrice Watson Parrent Postdoctoral Fellow
       Supermassive black holes, galaxy nuclei, brightest cluster galaxies
Eric Nielsen  PhD, 2011, University of Arizona
       Exoplanets, Circumstellar Disks, or Brown Dwarfs Postdoctoral Fellow
       Directly imaging and characterizing extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs
Timm-Emanuel Riesen  Ph.D.,2007, University of Bern, Switzerland
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Mass spectrometers, Rosetta Mission, main-belt comets, solar system
James Stephenson  PhD 2011, University of Cambridge, UK
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Life's choice of amino acids
Peter Vereš  PhD, 2010, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
        Pan-STARRS PS1 MOPS Postdoctoral Fellow
        Populations of small near-Earth asteroids; meteors; transiting exoplanets
Christopher Waters  PhD, 2007, Michigan State University
        Pan-STARRS PS1SC Postdoctoral Researcher
        Globular cluster dynamics

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Last modified: 11/2013