- Group Head: Prof. Maryam Modjaz
- Ph.D. Student Adrian Crawford (homepage) works on large-scale photometric surveys and machine learning
- Ph.D. Student Raphael Baer-Way works on on interacting supernovae through multiwavelength observations using X-ray, optical, and radio data
- Postdoc Dr. Sahana Kumar works on SNe Ia and leads the observational large-aperture telescope (Magellan, MMT, LBT) program of our group
- Undergraduate Altony Foote works on time-series analysis of recent Stripped SNe to search for rebrightening due to interaction
- Undergraduate Muhammed Mousa works on nearby broad-lined SNe Ic, the only type of SNe connected with Gamma-Ray bursts.
Former group members:
- Dr. Craig Pellegrino, staff at NASA ACROSS, former postdoc in my METAL UVA group (2023-2024) works on interacting Stripped SNe (ie, SNe Icn, SNe Ibn). He was our liaison with the LCO’s Global SN Project and leads the SNEX2 efforts.
- Ph.D. Student Noshin Yesmin worked with METAL on Young SNe Ib and transition SNe (2023-2024)
- Dr. Marc Williamson, astronomer at MIT Lincoln Labs(homepage), former PhD student at NYU (2017-2023)
- Dr. Tyler Pritchard (homepage), staff at NASA Goddard, former postdoc with me at NYU (2018-2022)
- Prof. Federica Bianco, now faculty at Delaware (homepage), former James Arthur Postdoc in my group at NYU (2012-2016)
- Prof. Wolfgang Kerzendorf, now faculty at Michigan State University (homepage), former postdoc in my group at NYU (2018-2019)
- Junior Research Scientist Magdalena Siwek (Feb 2018 – July 2018, now PhD student at Harvard University)
- Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Shan Huang (2014-2017, now Senior Data Scientist and Strategist at IBM)
- Prof Or Graur, now faculty at Portsmouth, UK) (homepage), former postdoc in my group at NYU (2012-2016)
- Ph.D Student: Yuqian Liu (2012-2017; now at Capital One as Data scientist)
- Ph.D. Student Kierran Finn (2015-2016 now PhD student in the UK)
- Junior Research Assistant: David Fierroz (2011-2015)
- NYU-Abu Dhabi undergraduate student Seung Man Oh (2013-2015)
- Ph.D Student Nitya Doddamane (2012-2012)
Some of our activities, besides working on awesome science:
