Najmeh Emami

with Prof. Brian Siana
Office: Pierce 2120
Telephone:
E-mail: nemam001-at-ucr.edu

Research interests: dwarf galaxies, bursty star formation,
role of dwarf galaxies in the reionization of the universe.

Tara Fetherolf

with Prof. Naveen Reddy and Prof. Stephen Kane
Office:  Pierce Hall 2367
Telephone:
E-mail: tfeth001-at-ucr.edu
Website: www.tarafetherolf.com
Research interests: galaxy evolution, the interstellar medium, star formation, and
the
detection and characterization of exoplanets

Ben Forrest

with Prof. Gillian Wilson
Office: Pierce Hall 2213
E-mail: benjaminf-at-ucr.edu

Research Interests: galaxy evolution, galaxy formation, galaxy clusters.

Albert Izard

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
Office: Pierce Hall 2121
E-mail: albertiz-at-ucr.edu

Research Interests: numerical cosmological simulations, approximated methods for the
generation of mock galaxy catalogs, large-scale structure, weak gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering,
covariance matrices.

Marie Wingyee Lau

with Prof. Frederick Hamann
Office: Pierce 2206
E-mail: wingyeel-at-ucr.edu

Research Interests: quasar feeding and feedback, circumgalactic medium, obscured
quasars, and massive galaxies.

Teo Mocnik

with Prof. Stephen Kane
Office: Pierce Hall 2367
E-mail: teom-at-ucr.edu

Research Interests: transiting exoplanets, stellar variability.

Melanie G. Simet

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
Office: Pierce Hall 2121
E-mail: melanie.simet-at-ucr.edu

Research Interests: weak gravitational lensing, photometric redshifts, large-scale
structure, applications of big data techniques, sources of systematic error in cosmological
measurements.

Anahita Alavi

with Prof. Brian Siana
E-mail: aalav002-at-ucr.edu
Current: Assistant Staff Scientist at Caltech/IPAC

Research Interests: ultra-faint lensed star-forming
galaxies at high redshifts, reionization epoch, luminosity function and dust extinction of faint
galaxies at high redshift.

Miguel Aragón-Calvo

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
E-mail: miguel.aragon-calvo-at-ucr.edu

Current: Assistant Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico

Elisa Boera

with Prof. George Becker
E-mail: elisa.boera-at-ucr.edu
Current: INAF — Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy
Research Interests: intergalactic medium, quasar spectroscopy,
reionization epochs, cosmology, high and low redshift Lyman-forests.

Jeffrey Chan

with Prof. Gillian Wilson
E-mail: jchan-at-ucr.edu
Current: Lanterne AI, London, UK
Research Interests: galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy clusters, massive
galaxies.

Peter Creasey

with Prof. Laura Sales
E-mail: peter.creasey-at-ucr.edu
Current: Mercuna (AI Navigation for Games), Edinburgh, UK.
Research Interests:numerical simulations of galaxy formation,
stellar feedback, lambda cold dark-matter cosmology, collapse of primordial density
perturbations, supernovae.

Mario De Leo-Winkler

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
E-mail: mariodlw-at-ucr.edu
Current: Director of Communication of Knowledge, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico
Research Interests: primordial galaxies, gravitational lensing, Lyman Alpha
emitters, public outreach and science education.

Aleks Diamond-Stanic

CGE Fellow with Prof. Gabriela Canalizo
E-mail: aleks@ucsd.edu

Current: Assistant Professor at Bates College, Maine

Research Interests: black hole growth, galaxy
evolution, post-starburst galaxies, active galactic nuclei.

Alberto Domínguez

with Prof. Brian Siana
E-mail: albertod-at-ucr.edu

Research Interests: galaxy evolution: extragalactic
background light, galaxy spectral energy distributions, SED fitting, green-valley galaxies, dust
extinction; Gamma-ray cosmology: extragalactic gamma-ray sources, gamma-ray attenuation,
axion-like particle detectability, Cherenkov telescopes.

Xinnan Du

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
E-mail: xinnan.du-at-ucr.edu
Current: Outreach & Engagement Manager, KIPAC
Research Interests: outflows, galaxy evolution, HII regions, interstellar and circumgalactic medium,
extreme emission-line galaxies, education and public outreach in STEM.

Valentino Gonzalez

with Prof. Naveen Reddy
Email: valentino.gonzalez–at–ucr.edu

Current: Assistant Professor at Universidad de Chile

Research Interests:
high-redshift galaxies, galaxy evolution, galaxy stellar masses, galaxy stellar mass
function, star
formation histories of galaxies.

Ryan Mallery

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher
E-mail: ryan.mallery-at-ucr.edu

Current: AI Engineer II at Honeywell

Research Interests: Lyman-alpha emitters, feedback
processes, Lyman-alpha escape, outflow velocities, metallicity evolution of galaxies.

Sarah Miller

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher (joint UCR / Caltech)
E-mail: smiller-at-ucr.edu

Current: Chancellor’s ADVANCE Fellow, UC Irvine

Research Interests: galaxy formation and evolution,
galaxy dynamics, rotation curves, dark matter, cosmology, black hole – galaxy connection, baryon
fractions, disk galaxies.

Fahad Nasir

with Prof. Anson D’Aloisio
E-mail: fahadn-at-ucr.edu
Research Interests: IGM, cosmological simulations, reionization, Lyman-Alpha forest.

Serena Perrotta

with Prof. Frederick Hamann
E-mail: serenap-at-ucr.edu
Current: Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, UCSD
Research Interests: intergalactic medium, spectroscopy, high-redshift quasars,
outflows, AGN feedback.

Alessandro Rettura

with Prof. Gillian Wilson
E-mail: arettura-at-ucr.edu

Current: Payload Systems Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Research Interests: observational cosmology: galaxy
formation in different environments, evolution of galaxy stellar populations, structural evolution
of galaxies, panchromatic studies of the most distant galaxy clusters, study of the environment of
distant radio galaxies, dark matter.

Chihiro Tokoku

with Prof. Bahram Mobasher

Current: Project Assistant Professor, Advanced Technology Center (ATC), NAOJ, Japan

Vivian U

with Prof. Gabriela Canalizo
E-mail: vivianu-at-ucr.edu

Current: Assistant Research Astronomer, UC Irvine

Research Interests: infrared galaxies, interacting
galaxies, active galaxies, starburst-agn connection, galaxy formation and evolution.

Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck

with Prof. Simeon Bird
E-mail: phoebeu-at-ucr.edu
Current: Los Alamos National Lab
Research Interests: intergalactic medium, radiation backgrounds, cosmology,
circumgalactic medium.