Michael Baer
they/he
Research Interests: Distinguishing the mimics from the true Type IIn supernovae using their spectra via a semi-automated spectral classification method
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Astronomy from San Diego State University
Email: mjbaer@sdsu.edu
Leonardo A. Barba
he/him
Research Interests: Galaxy evolution and formation, galactic winds and gas inflows, astronomical instrumentation with a focus on telescope design
Undergraduate Degree: B.A. in Physics with minors in Astrophysics and Math from Texas A&M University
Email: lbarba6064@sdsu.edu
Joshua Bardwell
he/him
Research Interests: Using numerical solutions to create waveform templates for extreme mass ratio inspirals (stellar mass black hole in orbit about a super-massive black hole)
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Email: jbardwell3131@sdsu.edu
Ashley Lemasters
they/she
Research Interests: Galactic evolution and galaxy mergers
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Astronomy and Physics from Youngstown State University
Email: alemasters8268@sdsu.edu
JT Markham-Adkison
they/them
Research Interests: Analyzing spectropolarimetric data on type 1a supernovae and its correlation with their physical parameters
Undergraduate Degree: B.A. in Liberal Arts with concentration in physics from Sarah Lawrence College
Email: jmarkhamadkison@sdsu.edu
Rohan Rahatgaonkar
he/him
Research Interests: Kinematics of high resolution VLT/MUSE spectroscopic sample of nearby galaxies through 3-D tilted ring modeling
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Physics and Math from University of Toledo
Email: rrahatgaonkar@sdsu.edu
Website: https://rohanrahat.github.io
Spencer Raines
he/him
Research Interests: Analyzing spectropolarimetric data from core-collapse supernovae looking for correlations with their physical parameters
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Physics with an emphasis in Astrophysics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Email: sraines6427@sdsu.edu
Joseph Soliz
he/him
Research Interests: Oxygenic photosynthesis of a TRAPPIST-1e Earth-analog exoplanet
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Physics, California State University, Long Beach
Email: jsoliz3160@sdsu.edu
Pat Spalding
they/any
Research Interests: Undecided
Undergraduate Degree: B.S in Physics and minor in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Email: pspalding@sdsu.edu
Adam Tedeschi
he/him
Research Interests: Galactic outflows of star-forming galaxies by analyzing Mg II emission that traces the galactic winds
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: atedeschi@sdsu.edu
Margo Thornton
she/her
Research Interests: Circumbinary planets whose host binary star system has a period of less than two days using Kepler and TESS data
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Physics; Minors in Astronomy and Math from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Email: mfthornton@sdsu.edu
Jynessa Valladon
she/her
Research Interests: Stellar astrophysics
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Physics from San José State University
Email: jvalladon8192@sdsu.edu