CURRENT:

Postdoctoral Associates



PAST:

Postdoctoral Associates


Graduate Students


Graduate Students


Pre-doctoral Research Associates

  • Justin Pelzer
  • Peter Perakis

Undergraduate Students


Undergraduate Students


Sabbatical Visitors


Sabbatical Visitors




CURRENT GROUP MEMBERS:

SCOTT COUGHLIN   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:ScottCoughlin2014@u.northwestern.edu
BEN FARR   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:BenjaminFarr2016@u.northwestern.edu
WILL FARR   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects:
Email:w-farr@northwestern.edu
DIEGO FAZI   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects:
Email:d-fazi@northwestern.edu
DARYL HAGGARD   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects:
Email:dhaggard@northwestern.edu
CHASE KIMBALL   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
KYLE KREMER   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:KyleKremer2012@u.northwestern.edu
JOHN LE   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:JohnLe2014@u.northwestern.edu
VIVIEN RAYMOND   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email: vivien@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 847.467.5109
DANIEL STEVENS   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: Parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources
Email: dan.stevens@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: 847.467.5109
LAURA TROUILLE   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects:
Email:l-trouille@northwestern.edu
FRANCESCA VALSECCHI   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects: Formation of Black Hole X-Ray Binary Systems
Email: f-valsecchi@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847.467.5109
Website: http://ciera.northwestern.edu/francesca/Homepage/
CARL RODRIGUEZ   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:CarlRodriguez2015@u.northwestern.edu
TSING-WAI WONG   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email: nwu-tww231@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847.491.4661



PAST GROUP MEMBERS:

ASNA ANSARI   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:asnaansari2012@u.northwestern.edu
JEFF ANDREWS   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: Mass Ratios in Double Neutron Stars
Email:jeffrey-andrews@northwestern.edu
KRZYSZTOF BELCZYNSKI

Research Projects: Single and Binary Star Evolution, Gravitational Wave Sources, Physics of Compact Objects
URL: Krzysztof Belczynski's website
LAURA BLECHA   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: How to IMBH capture companions in young clusters? Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries in Motion: Are There Any in Inter-Galactic Space?
MICHAEL DOWNEY   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: Populations of X-Ray Binaries in Elliptical Galaxies
Email: m-downey@northwestern.edu
MIKE ERACLEOUS   (Sabbatical Visitor)

Research Projects: Active galactic nuclei, cataclysmic variables, interacting binaries in starburst galaxies, X-ray and gamma-ray sources, GRB afterglows, UV-excess stars
Email: m-eracleous@northwestern.edu
MARCEL FLORES   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:MarcelFlores2007@u.northwestern.edu
TASSOS FRAGOS   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects: Black-Hole X-ray Binaries
Email: tassosfragos@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847.467.5109
MARC FREITAG   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects: Dynamics of Dense Stellar Systems, Role of a Central Black Hole, Stellar Collisions, Gravitational Wave Sources.
PHILIPPE GRANDCLÉMENT

Research Projects: Compact Objects, General Relativity, Gravitational Wave Sources and Data Analysis
MIKE HENNINGER

Research Projects: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: How Can We Identify Them?
MIA IHM   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: How eccentric are NS-NS binaries expected to be? Binaries with Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Spin Tilts, Precession, and Gravitational Wave Signals
NATASHA IVANOVA   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects: Stellar Evolution, Interacting Binaries, Nucleosynthesis, Numerical Hydrodynamics
URL: Natasha Ivanova's website
JEFF KAPLAN   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: How fast do Black Holes in BH-NS Binaries spin?
Email: j-kaplan-1@northwestern.edu
JAMES KATH   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: Luminosity Functions of White Dwarfs; WD Cooling
Email: j-kath@northwestern.edu
CHUNGLEE KIM   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects: Compact Objects, Close Binary Systems as Sources of Gravitational Radiation
URL: Chunglee Kim's website
TODD LEVIN

Research Projects: Production of Millisecond Pulsars in Binaries and Evolutionary History of Black-Hole X-ray Binaries
TIM LINDEN   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: Super Star Clusters and X-ray Binaries
Email: t-linden@northwestern.edu
ANDREW LOVERIDGE   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email:AndrewLoveridge2007@u.northwestern.edu
ILYA MANDEL   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects:Gravitational-wave sources, gravitational-wave data analysis.
Email: i-mandel@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847.467.3017
CHRIS MORSE

Research Projects: X-Ray Binary Motions in Young Star Clusters
ALEX MURATOV   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects: Numerical Simulations of Free-Oscillations of White Dwarfs
Email: a-muratov@northwestern.edu
PHILIP NUTZMAN

Research Projects: Coalescence Rates: Extrapolating Galaxy by Galaxy
RICHARD O'SHAUGHNESSY   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects: Genetic Algorithms in Population Synthesis and Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis
Email: oshaughn@northwestern.edu
URL: Richard O'Shaughnessy's website
JEREMY SEPINSKY   (Graduate Student)

Research Projects: X-ray Binaries and Super Star Clusters
Email: fourskys@gmail.com
URL: Jeremy Sepinsky's website
MICHAEL TREMMEL   (Undergraduate Student)

Research Projects:
Email: MichaelTremmel2007@u.northwestern.edu
ALBERTO VECCHIO   (Sabbatical Visitor)

Research Projects: Gravitational waves: sources, data analysis and observations (GEO600, LIGO, LISA)
Email: av@star.sr.bham.ac.uk
URL: Alberto Vecchio's website
MARC VAN DER SLUYS   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects: Single and binary star evolution, compact X-ray binaries, double white dwarfs, gravitational waves from black-hole binaries, evolution of triple stars
Email: sluysatnorthwestern.edu
URL: Marc van der Sluys's website
Phone: 847.467.3017
BART WILLEMS   (Postdoctoral Associate)

Research Projects: Dynamics Tides and Stellar Oscillations in Close Binaries, Population Synthesis of Binaries with Compact Objects, Extrasolar Planets, Close White Dwarf Binaries as Gravitational-Wave Sources for LISA
Email: b-willems@northwestern.edu
URL: Bart Willems' website
Phone: 847.467.3017