Current student supervision
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Viviane Kuss
PhD @ Tufts Delta scutis, stellar binaries & triples Wata Tubthong PhD @ Tufts Exoplanets, celestial mechanics Kimberly Armas PhD @ Tufts (Starting Fall 2026) NSF GRFP |
Rekha Mahadevan
Undergrad @ Tufts Variable stars and white dwarfs in wide binaries Max Edelman Undergrad @ Tufts Sympathetic stellar flares, stellar flybys of Planet 9 Andy Zhang Undergrad @ Tufts - now PhD at The Ohio State University with NSF GRFP Rossiter-McLaughlin of eclipsing binaries, relationship between spots and flares |
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Left: Astrophysics grad & undergrad students, semester kick-off BBQ, September 2025 - photo by Amber Banks (Tufts junior & extragalactic researcher)
Right: Recent masters program graduates Tess Kleanthous (off to Montreal!) and Becca Spejcher (off to Colorado!)
Right: Recent masters program graduates Tess Kleanthous (off to Montreal!) and Becca Spejcher (off to Colorado!)
Past students
Mercera Finger
Undergrad @ Tufts
Variable stars and white dwarfs in wide binaries
Dake La Sala
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Masters at Air Force Academy
Variable stars and white dwarfs in wide binaries
Jason Reeves
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD at Illinois
Overlapping stellar flare detection with TOFFEE
Veronica Pratt
PhD @ Tufts (primary advisor Danilo Marchesini)
Sympathetic stellar flares
Tess Kleanthous
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD @ Montreal
Exoplanets
Becca Spejcher
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD @ Colorado Boulder
Rossiter-McLaughlin, Eclipsing Binaries
Kesha Patel
Masters @ Tufts (primary advisor Danilo Marchesini)
Rossiter-McLaughlin, Eclipsing Binaries
Max Ammons
Undergrad @ Tufts
Rossiter-McLaughlin of eclipsing binaries
Jake Pandina
Undergrad @ Tufts
Rossiter-McLaughlin of eclipsing binaries
Alison Duck
PhD @ The Ohio State University (primary advisor Scott Gaudi) - now Postdoctoral fellow @ JPL
M dwarfs, eclipsing binaries
Ben Gordon
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD @ LSU
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Helena Buschermöhle
Undergrad/Post-bacc @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Noah Stiegler
Undergrad @ Tufts - now PhD @ Berkeley
Exoplanets
Arielle Weinstein
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Data Science Masters @ Northwestern
Exoplanets
Casey Hartman
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Masters @ Geneva, Switzerland
Exoplanets
Izzy Ward
Undergrad @ Tufts - now PhD at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Exoplanets
Liz Bergeron
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Masters @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Grace Masiello
Undergrad @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Sean Smallets
Undergrad @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Romy Rodríguez Martínez
PhD @ The Ohio State University (primary advisor Scott Gaudi) - now Future Faculty Leaders postdoc @ CfA
Flares, white dwarfs, M dwarfs
Kiersten Boley
PhD @ The Ohio State University (primary advisor Ji Wang) - NSF graduate research fellow - now Hubble Fellow
White dwarfs, transiting exoplanets
Ritika Sethi
Masters @ IISER Berhampur, India (sole advisor) - now PhD @ MIT
Tidal physics, hot Jupiters, flares, star spot distributions
Shelby Summers
Undergrad @ The Ohio State University (co-advisor Alison Duck)
TESS exoplanets and eclipsing binaries
Nathan Hughes
Undergrad @ The Ohio State University (co-advisor Alexander Stephan) - now Masters @ Houston
Celestial mechancs and white dwarf exoplanet system evolution
1 paper
Andrew Miller
Undergraduate @ The Ohio State University (co advisor Alexander Stephan) - now PhD @ Toledo
Black holes, binary stellar evolution
Tayt Armitage
Undergraduate @ The Ohio State University (co advisor Romy Rodríguez Martínez) - now PhD @ Wisconsin
Flare occultations, M dwarfs, exoplanet modeling
Evan Fitzmaurice
Undergraduate and post-bacc @ The Ohio State University- now PhD @ Penn State
Circumbinary planets, white dwarfs, celestial mechanics, planet formation
Vedad Kunovac-Hodzic
Fulbright @ Chicago, PhD @ Birmingham (primary advisor Amaury Triaud) - now postdoc @ Warwick
Eclipsing binaries, Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, transiting exoplanets
Hannah Parsons
Undergraduate @ The Ohio State University
Circumbinary planet detection, light curve modeling
Undergrad @ Tufts
Variable stars and white dwarfs in wide binaries
Dake La Sala
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Masters at Air Force Academy
Variable stars and white dwarfs in wide binaries
Jason Reeves
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD at Illinois
Overlapping stellar flare detection with TOFFEE
Veronica Pratt
PhD @ Tufts (primary advisor Danilo Marchesini)
Sympathetic stellar flares
Tess Kleanthous
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD @ Montreal
Exoplanets
Becca Spejcher
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD @ Colorado Boulder
Rossiter-McLaughlin, Eclipsing Binaries
Kesha Patel
Masters @ Tufts (primary advisor Danilo Marchesini)
Rossiter-McLaughlin, Eclipsing Binaries
Max Ammons
Undergrad @ Tufts
Rossiter-McLaughlin of eclipsing binaries
Jake Pandina
Undergrad @ Tufts
Rossiter-McLaughlin of eclipsing binaries
Alison Duck
PhD @ The Ohio State University (primary advisor Scott Gaudi) - now Postdoctoral fellow @ JPL
M dwarfs, eclipsing binaries
Ben Gordon
Masters @ Tufts - now PhD @ LSU
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Helena Buschermöhle
Undergrad/Post-bacc @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Noah Stiegler
Undergrad @ Tufts - now PhD @ Berkeley
Exoplanets
Arielle Weinstein
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Data Science Masters @ Northwestern
Exoplanets
Casey Hartman
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Masters @ Geneva, Switzerland
Exoplanets
Izzy Ward
Undergrad @ Tufts - now PhD at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Exoplanets
Liz Bergeron
Undergrad @ Tufts - now Masters @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Grace Masiello
Undergrad @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Sean Smallets
Undergrad @ Tufts
Exoplanets, Exomoons
Romy Rodríguez Martínez
PhD @ The Ohio State University (primary advisor Scott Gaudi) - now Future Faculty Leaders postdoc @ CfA
Flares, white dwarfs, M dwarfs
Kiersten Boley
PhD @ The Ohio State University (primary advisor Ji Wang) - NSF graduate research fellow - now Hubble Fellow
White dwarfs, transiting exoplanets
Ritika Sethi
Masters @ IISER Berhampur, India (sole advisor) - now PhD @ MIT
Tidal physics, hot Jupiters, flares, star spot distributions
Shelby Summers
Undergrad @ The Ohio State University (co-advisor Alison Duck)
TESS exoplanets and eclipsing binaries
Nathan Hughes
Undergrad @ The Ohio State University (co-advisor Alexander Stephan) - now Masters @ Houston
Celestial mechancs and white dwarf exoplanet system evolution
1 paper
Andrew Miller
Undergraduate @ The Ohio State University (co advisor Alexander Stephan) - now PhD @ Toledo
Black holes, binary stellar evolution
Tayt Armitage
Undergraduate @ The Ohio State University (co advisor Romy Rodríguez Martínez) - now PhD @ Wisconsin
Flare occultations, M dwarfs, exoplanet modeling
Evan Fitzmaurice
Undergraduate and post-bacc @ The Ohio State University- now PhD @ Penn State
Circumbinary planets, white dwarfs, celestial mechanics, planet formation
Vedad Kunovac-Hodzic
Fulbright @ Chicago, PhD @ Birmingham (primary advisor Amaury Triaud) - now postdoc @ Warwick
Eclipsing binaries, Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, transiting exoplanets
Hannah Parsons
Undergraduate @ The Ohio State University
Circumbinary planet detection, light curve modeling
Kiersten Boley, Evan Fitzmaurice, Alison Duck, Romy Rodríguez Martínez, me and Michael Plummer at GLEAM 2021 at "That University Up North" (Michigan)
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Participants at the recent GLEAM 2022 which I helped organise at The Ohio State University. Present students Alison Duck and Tayt Armitage presented our research.
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