Postdoctoral Fellows:
– M. Fang (2017-2019, LPL, The University of Arizona). Disk Winds. 1. A New Look at T Tauri Star Forbidden Lines: MHD-driven Winds from the Inner Disk – 2. Double-peaked [O I] Profile: A Likely Signature of the Gaseous Ring around KH 15D – 3. A High-resolution Optical Survey of Upper Sco: Evidence for Coevolution of Accretion and Disk Winds
– A. Banzatti (2016-2019, LPL, The University of Arizona). The evolution and dispersal of gas in the planet-forming region of disks. 1. Kinematic Links and the Coevolution of MHD Winds, Jets, and Inner Disks – 2. Hints for Icy Pebble Migration Feeding an Oxygen-rich Chemistry in the Inner Planet-forming Region of Disks
– G. Mulders (2013-2018, LPL, The University of Arizona), Kepler exoplanets and planet formation. 1. A stellar-mass-dependent drop in planet occurrence rates – 2. The Snow Line in Viscous Disks around Low-mass Stars – 3. An Increase in the Mass of Planetary Systems around Lower-mass Stars – 4. A Super-Solar Metallicity For Stars With Hot Rocky Exoplanets – 5.Constraints from Dust Mass and Mass Accretion Rate Measurements on Angular Momentum Transport in Protoplanetary Disks – 6. The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator
– E. Rigliaco (2011-2014, LPL, The University of Arizona), Disk evolution and dispersal. 1. Understanding the Origin of the [O I] Low-velocity Component from T Tauri Stars – 2. Extending Accretion Diagnostics to the Mid-Infrared Wavelengths
– D. Fedele (2010-2011, Johns Hopkins University), Disk chemistry. 1.Water Depletion in the Disk Atmosphere of Herbig AeBe Stars – 2. On the Asymmetry of the OH Ro-vibrational Lines in HD 100546
– V. Roccatagliata (2010-2011, Space Telescope Science Institute), Re-reduction of archival Spitzer/IRS low-resolution spectra, some data included in The protoplanetary disk of FT Tauri: multiwavelength data analysis and modeling
– B. Riaz (2010-2011, Space Telescope Science Institute), Disk structure. The unusual protoplanetary disk around the T Tauri star ET Chamaeleontis
Graduate students:
– N. Bajaj, PhD (2022-pres, LPL, The University of Arizona), Disk Winds. 1. JWST MIRI MRS Observations of T Cha: Discovery of a Spatially Resolved Disk Wind
– C. Xie, PhD (2022-pres, LPL, The University of Arizona), Protoplanetary Disks. 1. Water-rich Disks around Late M Stars Unveiled: Exploring the Remarkable Case of Sz 114
– D. Deng, PhD (2020-pres, LPL, The University of Arizona), Protoplanetary Disk Masses. 1. DiskMINT: A Tool to Estimate Disk Masses with CO Isotopologues
– G. Bergsten, PhD (2019-pres, LPL, The University of Arizona), Exoplanets. 1. The Demographics of Kepler’s Earths and Super-Earths into the Habitable Zone – 2. No Evidence for More Earth-sized Planets in the Habitable Zone of Kepler’s M versus FGK Stars
– R. Fernandes, PhD (2017-2023, LPL, The University of Arizona), Exoplanets. 1. Hints for a Turnover at the Snow Line in the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate – 2. pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets in TESS Primary Mission Photometry – 3. Using Photometrically-Derived Properties of Young Stars to Refine TESS’s Transiting Young Planet Survey Completeness
– N. Hendler, PhD (2015-2020, LPL, The University of Arizona), Disk Structures. 1. Hints for Small Disks around Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs – 2. A likely planet-induced gap in the disc around TCha – 3. The Evolution of Dust Disk Sizes from a Homogeneous Analysis of 1-10 Myr old Stars
– M. Simon, PhD (2013-2015, LPL, The University of Arizona). Tracing Slow Winds from T Tauri Stars via Low Velocity Forbidden Line Emission
– J. Keane, 1st year research project (2012-2013, LPL, The University of Arizona). Herschel Evidence for Disk Flattening or Gas Depletion in Transitional Disks
Undergraduate students:
– B. Skinner, Honors thesis, (2022-2023, LPL, The University of Arizona). ACA Survey of Atomic Carbon in Large Lupus Disks. Large Myr-old Disks Are Not Severely Depleted of Gas-phase CO or Carbon
– M. James, Honors thesis (2019-2020, LPL, The University of Arizona). Modeling infrared water lines in Spitzer spectra. Testing the Retrieval of Inner Disk Water Enrichment with Spitzer/IRS and JWST/MIRI
– R. Latka, master thesis (2018-2019, LPL & MPIA). Modeling of dust growth and drift to explain observed disk masses and sizes
– N. Hendler, Summer research project (2013-2014, LPL, The University of Arizona). Low EUV Luminosities Impinging on Protoplanetary Disks
– J. Szulagyi, Master thesis (2010-2012, Space Telescope Science Institute). On the Stellar Radiation Field Impinging on Transitional Disk Atmospheres
– L. Szucs, Master thesis, (2009-2011, Space Telescope Science Institute). Stellar-mass-dependent Disk Structure in Coeval Planet-forming Disks
– E. E. Hardegree-Ullman, Honors thesis (2005-2006, Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona). Planet Formation in Binaries
I also served as NASA Space Grant Mentor for two undergraduate students at the University of Arizona and provided research opportunities and honors projects to several undergraduate students.