Short Biography

Aaron Geller is jointly appointed as the Lead Data Scientist in Research Computing and Data Services (RCDS) in Northwestern University IT and a Research Associate Professor in the Northwestern's CIERA astrophysics center. Aaron oversees the data science efforts of the RCDS team, helping to drive innovation and excellence in research across Northwestern through our service areas. Aaron also brings extensive expertise in data visualization, with years of experience collaborating with Northwestern researchers to share their data and discoveries through impactful visual storytelling. His astrophysics 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.

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 and my publications on the arXiv. (Please note: the ArXiv searches may include publications by authors with similar names.)