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Postdoctoral Researchers

Chris Bennett  PhD, 2009, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Formation of astrobiologically important molecules in ices, UHV design, physical chemistry

Jason Byrne  PhD, 2010, University of Dublin, Trinity College
        Coronal Mass Ejection Model & Data Analyst Postdoctoral Fellow
        Solar physics
Caitlin Casey  PhD, 2010, University of Cambridge
        Hubble Fellow
        Ultraluminous galaxies, starburst AGN interaction, galaxy evolution
Hsin-Fang Chiang  PhD, 2011, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
        Low-mass star formation
Lucas A. Cieza  PhD, 2007, University of Texas at Austin
         Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow
         Structure and evolution of circumstellar disks
Heather Flewelling  PhD, 2009, University of Michigan
        Pan-STARRS PS1SC Postdoctoral Researcher
        Gamma-ray bursts
Tomotsugu Goto  PhD, 2003, University of Tokyo
        Cosmology Postdoctoral Fellowship
        High-z QSOs, post-starburst (E+A) galaxies, luminous Infrared galaxies,
        environmental effects on galaxy evolution
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
Eric Hilton  PhD, 2011, University of Washington
       Low-mass Stars and Exoplanets Postdoctoral Fellow
       Characterizing low-mass stars, exoplanets, flares
Henry Hsieh  PhD, 2007, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
        Hubble Fellow
        Comets, asteroids
Kaori Jogo  PhD, 2010, Kyushu University, Japan
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Evolution process of primitive asteroids
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
Jacqueline Keane  PhD, 2002, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Ice and dust in young stellar objects, protoplanetary disks
Jan Kleyna  PhD, 1998, Harvard University
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Main Belt Comets, Pan-STARRS moving object software, DIXI mission support
Michael Koss   PhD, 2011, University of Maryland   
       X-ray surveys, host galaxies of AGN, merger AGN connection   
Adam Kraus   PhD, 2009, California Institute of Technology
       Hubble Fellow
       Star and planet formation, extrasolar planets, stellar populations, fundamental stellar
       properties, Main Belt comets, Pan-STARRS software, DIXI mission support
Jessica Lu  PhD, 2008, University of California, Los Angeles
       NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellow
       High-mass star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astrometry
Elena Moise   PhD, 2004, University of Arizona
       Solar and Heliospheric Postdoctoral Fellow 
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
Alberto Robador  PhD, 2009, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen,
       Germany
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Temperature control of sedimentary bacterial energy metabolism; ecophysiology; bacterial
       diversity
Gal Sarid  PhD, 2009, Tel Aviv University
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Thermal, structural, and dynamical evolution of icy objects in the solar system
James Stephenson  PhD 2011, University of Cambridge, UK
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Life's choice of amino acids
Ana Maria Teodorescu  PhD, 2006, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
       Planetary nebulae in our Galaxy and others
Miguel A. Urbaneja PhD, 2004, University of La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain
        Hot star atmospheres, quantitative spectroscopy of blue supergiant stars,
        extragalactic stellar astronomy; chemical evolution of galaxies
Peter Veres  PhD, 2010, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
        Pan-STARRS PS1 MOPS Postdoctoral Fellow
        Populations of small near-Earth asteroids; meteors; transiting exoplanets
Zahed Wahhaj  PhD, 2005, University of Pennsylvania
        High Angular Resolution Postdoctoral Fellow 
        Disks and planets around nearby stars
Christopher Waters  PhD, 2007, Michigan State University
        Pan-STARRS PS1SC Postdoctoral Researcher
        Globular cluster dynamics
Bin Yang  PhD, 2009, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
       Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow
       Main Belt comets, jovian trojan asteroids, spectroscopy, infrared astronomy

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Last modified: 11/2011