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Diana Dragomir
Assistant Professor
New Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Discovered

Diana Dragomir is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the demographics and atmospheres of exoplanets smaller than Neptune. She is particularly interested in super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, planets with radii between those of the Earth and Neptune.

Thu Dec 29

Michael Hecht
Principal Investigator
Meet MOXIE: Perseverance Rover's Little Device Producing Oxygen

Michael H. Hecht is a research scientist, the associate director for research management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Haystack Observatory, and the deputy project director for the Event Horizon Telescope. He served as the lead scientist for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer instrument on the Phoenix Mars lander, and as the principal investigator for the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) instrument.

Wed Dec 28

Giorgi Melikidze
Deputy Rector
Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory

Professor Giorgi Melikidze Ph.D. is the Deputy Rector for Science and International Cooperation at the University of Zielona Góra (Uniwesytet Zielnogórski), Poland. He was the Deputy Director of the Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory from 1992 to 1996.

Tue Dec 27

Sarang Mani
Project Manager
The Perovskite Visuals and Degradation eXperiment

Sarang Mani is a Brown University senior and the project manager of the Brown Space Engineering (BSE) student group. He is originally from Bangalore, India, and have lived all over India and also in Berlin, Germany. At Brown, he is mostly involved in things related to space and sustainable finance.

Fri Dec 23

Mehmet S. Tosun
Professor
The Billionaires' Space Race

Mehmet S. Tosun is the Barbara Smith Campbell Distinguished Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He is also a Professor of Economics and the Director of International Programs in the College of Business. His research interests and expertise include public finance (particularly tax policy), regional economics, and economics of population and demography.

Thu Dec 22

David Cantillo
Undergraduate Student
Asteroid Psyche

David Cantillo is an undergraduate student at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Arizona (UArizona) and the president of the UArizona Astronomy Club. He is majoring in geology and minoring in planetary science and math.

Tue Dec 20

Ziggy Pleunis
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts

Ziggy Pleunis is a postdoctoral researcher at the McGill Space Institute of the McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He studies fast radio bursts (FRBs) and pulsars using observations with radio telescopes and (sometimes) the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. Ziggy is a member of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration and he wrote a PhD thesis on the detection and morphology of FRBs with the CHIME telescope.

Roger Wiens
Principal Investigator
Meet SuperCam: Perseverance Rover's Superhero for Mars Discoveries

Roger Wiens is a planetary scientist and Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He is the principal investigator for both the ChemCam instrument aboard the Mars Curiosity rover and the SuperCam instrument, aboard the Perseverance rover.

Anders Johansen
Professor
Understanding Planet Formation

Anders Johansen is a Professor of Astronomy at Lund Observatory at Lund University in Sweden, working there on topics such as planet formation, accretion discs, turbulence, and supercomputing. He obtained his PhD in 2007 at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. After that he spent a bit more than two years as a postdoc at Leiden Observatory. Anders obtained his docent degree from Lund University in 2013.

Óskar B. Helgason
PhD student
Microcomb for Planet Hunters

Óskar Bjarki Helgason is a PhD student at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Photonics Laboratory of the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. His research is focused on the dynamics and design of microresonator frequency combs.

William Rapin
CNRS Research Scientist
Climate Change on Mars

William Rapin is a CNRS Research Scientist at IRAP (Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology) in Toulouse, France, collaborating with IMPMC (Institute of Mineralogy, Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry) in Paris, France. His research investigates the surface geochemistry of planets to improve our understanding of their origin, evolution, and habitability.

Daniel Stern
Research Scientist
Quadruply Imaged Quasars

Daniel Stern is a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is a project scientist for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission and the Deputy Principal Investigator of the NASA-Funded Euclid Science Team. His main research interests are identifying and studying galaxies and galaxy clusters at high redshift, as well as understanding the cosmic history of black hole formation and activity.

Javier T. Bueno
Research Professor
CLASP2 Space Experiment

Javier Trujillo Bueno has a doctorate in Physics from the University of Göttingen (Germany) and is a Research Professor of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), destined to the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC). He has extensive experience in the field of solar physics, and specifically in solar magnetism.

Savas Ceylan
Researcher
Seismically Active Mars

Dr. Savas Ceylan is a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. He is part of the Marsquake Service - the InSight ground team that detects marsquakes and curates the planet's seismicity catalog.

Jay Goguen
Senior Research Scientist
Measuring Tiny Moon Dust Particles

Dr. Jay D. Goguen majored in Physics at U. Massachusetts and received his B.S. in 1974. He completed his Ph.D in Astronomy at Cornell U. in 1981. From 1982 to 1985, he completed a post-doc at the University of Hawaii. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute and his primary research interests include quantitative interpretation of photometry, polarimetry and spectroscopy of solar system objects.

Charlotte Olsen
Doctoral Student
Baby Boom of New Stars

Charlotte Olsen is a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. In the summer of 2016, Charlotte was granted an internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to study enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies. In general, she studies how galaxies evolve by way of how they form stars.

Ignacio Negueruela
Professor of Astronomy
Valparaíso 1: A Newly Discovered Massive Star Cluster

Ignacio Negueruela is a professor of astronomy at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Alicante, Spain. His research is connected with different aspects of massive star formation and evolution, with special focus on the properties of high-mass binary systems - in particular, massive X-ray binaries - and very young open clusters.

Daniel Wang
Professor of Astronomy
A Lot Going On In Downtown Milky Way

Daniel Wang is a Professor of Astronomy at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research is focused on understanding the flows of the matter/energy in and around galaxies, or their

Kostantin Getman
Research Professor
Stellar X-Ray Super-Flares

Dr. Konstantin Getman received an honor master's degree in astronomy at Moscow State University in 1994 and his Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics at Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999. Since 2001, he has been at the Pennsylvania State University where he is currently a research professor. His research is focused on star formation and stellar activity.

Miguel Montargès
Astronomer
The Great Dimming Of Betelgeuse

Miguel Montargès defended his PhD in 2014 at the Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA) of the Paris Observatory (France). He then moved for a first post-doc to IRAM France (Grenoble), where I worked on the operations and commissioning of the NOEMA interferometer in the Alps. In 2020, he moved back to LESIA.

Hai-Bo Yu
Associate Professor
The Origin Of Supermassive Black Holes

Hai-Bo Yu is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside. His main research fields are: theoretical particle physics and astrophysics.

Hora Mishra
Ph.D. student
Changing-Look Blazars

Hora Mishra is a Ph.D. student at the University of Oklahoma, in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy. She is interested in the extra-galactic universe - active galactic nuclei, blazars, galaxy clusters, and the large-scale structure. Hora is also the President of Lunar Sooners, an astronomy outreach organization at the University of Oklahoma.

Christopher Prior
Assistant Professor
The Sun's Twisted Magnetic Field

Christopher Prior is an Addison-Wheeler fellow in the Mathematical sciences department at Durham University. His general interests lie in mathematical modelling and the mathematical issues on the borderline between geometry and topology. He has a particular interest in physical systems for which the conservation of topology of inter-twined bundles or tubular structures is a key consideration.

Michael Janssen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Centaurus A: Into The Darkness

Michael Janssen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfRA) in Bonn, Germany. He obtained his PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His recent research focuses on calibrating and utilizing millimeter very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations.

B. Knapmeyer-Endrun
Geophysicist
What Do We Know About Martian Crust?

Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun is a geophysicist and currently serves as the Head of the Seismological Observatory at Bensberg, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests include: planetary seismology (Moon, Mars), crustal and upper mantle structure of the Earth – imaging with receiver functions, surface waves, ambient noise, and array seismology.

Thu Sep 29