Short Biography

Aaron Geller is jointly appointed as a Research Associate Professor in the Northwestern University's CIERA astrophysics center and a Senior Data Visualization Specialist in Research Computing and Data Services (RCDS) in Northwestern University IT. His research focuses on the lives and deaths of stars and planets and the environments they live in, often centering on investigations into the origins of exotic stellar and planetary systems.

Aaron grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, and received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Iowa in Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics with a minor in Art. In 2010 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. After his Ph.D., he was awarded the prize Lindheimer Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), and in 2013 he was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, to continue his research pursuits.

Today in addition to his research, Aaron also splits his time between visualization development and education. In his work with education, Aaron is the Principle Investigator and Site Director for CIERA's NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, where he brings talented undergraduate students together from across the country to pursue research at Northwestern with Northwestern's faculty and staff.

In his work with visualizations, Aaron develops visualizations for students, faculty and staff across the University, ranging from the Business School, to the Medical School, and throughout the sciences.

For more details, please see my CV and publication list.

Northwestern also has a great site to investigate publications and grants for faculty. Here is my site.

Also here is a link to my Google Scholar profile. (Yes, I am a co-author on two biochemistry articles from research when I was in high school!)

You can also look at my NASA ADS Library (updated Aug. 2022), and also see my publications on the arXiv. (Please note: the ArXiv searches may include publications by authors with similar names.