I am an astrophysics PhD student and Berkeley Fellow at UC Berkeley searching for black holes via microlensing. I am working with Prof. Jessica Lu on photometric microlensing with large surveys, astrometric microlensing, and understanding how binaries impact our statistical understanding of the events we discover. I completed my Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 2021 in Astrophysics and Physics. As an undergraduate, I primarily worked with...
Hi! I’m Jackie, a 3rd year graduate student and NSF Fellow in the Astronomy Department working with Professor Josh Bloom. I am currently using neural likelihood-free inference to infer parameters of eclipsing binary stars so that we can learn more about stellar evolution, measure distances within the Milky Way as well as to distant galaxies, and gain a better understanding of the population of eclipsing binaries overall.
I grew up in eastern Iowa and fell in love with astronomy when I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time for my summer reading list in high school....
I am a third year NASA FINESST graduate student in astronomy. I completed my undergraduate in 2021 at Northwestern University in Physics as part of the Integrated Science Program. I work with Prof. Raffaella Margutti and Prof. Dan Kasen on multi-wavelength observational approaches and simulations of kilonovae, the result of a neutron star-neutron star and possibly black hole-neutron star merger.
Hi! I'm Savannah, a 2nd year graduate student in astronomy.
I grew up in the rural Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, and made my way to Wellesley College for undergrad. There, I received my B.A. in Spring 2022 in Astrophysics and East Asian Studies/Japanese Language and Culture. One of my research projects there was under the CHIME/FRB Collaboration, where I worked on instrumentation and FRB host-galaxy analysis with my advisors Kim McLeod, Kiyoshi Masui, and Juan Mena-Parra. After graduating, I spent 10 months at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Fellow under Michiko...
Hi! I’m Tyler, a 3rd year graduate student in the Astronomy Department working with Aaron Parsons. I’m currently working on developing novel calibration algorithms for the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) in an effort to detect the 21cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). I earned my Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Arizona State University, where I worked with Danny Jacobs and Judd Bowman on cross-correlating reionization-era line intensity mapping measurements.
Hello! I'm Eliza Diggins, a first-year Ph.D. student and Chancellor's Fellow in the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley. I study the dynamics of some of the largest structures in the universe and what they can tell us about fundamental physics and cosmic evolution. My work combines hydrodynamical simulations, numerical modeling, and theoretical tools to understand how these systems interact, evolve, and radiate. Alongside that, I spend a lot of time building scientific software to support simulation and analysis workflows in astrophysics.
I am a third-year graduate student in the Department of Astronomy, researching gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries with Prof. Luke Kelley. My research interests more broadly include the theoretical and computational study of black holes, gravitation, and cosmology. I graduated with a B.S. in Engineering Science and Physics from the University of Virginia (go hoos!) in 2022, where I worked with Jonathan Tan, Jan Staff, and Jon Ramsey on modeling ionization in massive protostellar outflow simulations and with Ilsang Yoon and Bjorn Emonts analyzing X-shaped radio...
