research advisor - Anand Sivaramakrishnan (he/him)

Dr. Sivaramakrishnan helped design and build the first three ground based extreme adaptive optics coronagraphs to detect faint planets around other stars: The Lyot Project, Palomar's P1640, and the Gemini Planet Imager.

He leads an effort to improve planet detection on the James Webb Space Telescope, and has worked on how to align the telescope after launch, after it unfolds its primary mirror. He teaches optics at JHU and STScI.

research advisor - Svea Hernandez (she/her)

Dr. Hernandez is an ESA/AURA Astronomer at Space Telescope Science Institute. She is a member of the Hubble Space Telescope STIS instrument team. Dr. Hernandez is a spectroscopist, experienced in wavelengths from the Far-UV all the way to the NIR, with ample experience collecting, calibrating and analyzing both space and ground observations. Her primary research interests are focused on investigating how galaxies of different types evolve chemically. In addition to her primary work, she has explored star-forming galaxies, their dust content, and their relevance to the epoch of reionization. Dr. Hernandez is particularly interested in the evolution of galaxies through cosmic time, including their stellar, neutral- and ionized-gas components. She is one of the members of the STScI research group, MINGLE (Metals IN GaLaxiEs).

Research Advisor - Mia Bovill (she/her)

Dr. Bovill is a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Maryland College Park.

Research advisor - Louis-Gregory Strolger

Dr. Strolger studies supernovae, especially the nature of their progenitors through bulk analyses; rates, environmental effects (star-formation, metallicity, etc.), and the global evolution of these properties over the history of the Universe.

Research Advisor - Nadia Dencheva

Due to the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, and her critical roles in this, Nadia will not be able to join us in 2022.

Dencheva is involved in the design and development of software for the calibration and analysis of data coming from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. Recent projects she has worked on include software for World Coordinate Transformations used by astrodrizzle and a package for modeling and fitting of data. Dencheva is a contributor to the open source project Astropy.