UMD - Key Persons


Abshire, James

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Research Scientist

Achterberg, Richard

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Adeline Gicquel-Brodtke

Job Titles:
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Ahrens, Caitlin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Alberto Bolatto

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Alexander Kutyrev

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Alexander Moiseev

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
Research Interests: High Energy Astrophysics (high energy gamma- and cosmic rays, cosmic Antimatter and Dark Matter), Experimental Techniques in Particle Physics. Education: Ph.D. in 1985 from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia Ongoing Research Projects:

Alice Allen

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Specialist

Allen, Alice

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Faculty Specialist

Amelia (Lia) Hankla

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Associate - Neil Gehrels Fellow

Andreoni, Igor

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate - Neil Gehrels Fellow

Ankita Bera

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Apala, Elizabeth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Faculty Specialist

Aparna Bhattacharya

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Research Scientist

Arjun Savel

Arjun Savel is a fourth-year graduate student in the UMD Astronomy Department. He works with Dr. Eliza Kempton on modeling Hot Jupiter atmospheres, with an emphasis on extracting 3-dimensional wind, temperature, and chemical gradients.

Arnaud, Keith

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Bansal, Aniruddh

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Barb Mattson

Job Titles:
  • Principal Faculty Specialist

Barbara Hansborough

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator
  • Staff

Barnes, Tilden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Bauer, James

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Professor

Beltz, Hayley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Benjamin Hirsch

Job Titles:
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Bennett, David

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Bera, Ankita

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Bertone, Stefano

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

Bhattacharya, Aparna

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Boettcher, Erin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Bolatto, Alberto

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Bonnell, Jerry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Bovill, Mia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

Bower, Dina

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Boyd, Patricia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Research Scientist

Brad Cenko

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Broadmeadow, Amanda

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Callahan, Emily

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Carr, John

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Research Scientist

Cecilia Chirenti

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Cheyne, Leland

Job Titles:
  • CRESST II Program Manager

Chin Fei

CO Outflows from Young Stars: Observations and Simulations

Chris Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Christine Knudson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Cottingham, Julia

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Cronin, Serena

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Cullinan, John

Job Titles:
  • Business and Administrative Coordinator

Cumbee, Renata

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Dahlin, Joel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Dai, Haoying

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Dailey, John

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Senior Faculty Specialist

Dan, Kylie

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Darg, Daniel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Davenport, Brian

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

David Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

DeMartini, Joseph

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Richardson

Dennis Chornay

Job Titles:
  • Research Engineer

Dent, Olivia

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Faculty and Graduate Affairs

Derek Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Diemer, Benedikt

Job Titles:
  • CTC Director

Dina Bower

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Dittmann, Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Miller

Earl, James

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Eggen, Joe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Elizabeth Warner

Job Titles:
  • Observatory Director

Elrod, Meredith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Associate Research Engineer

Emeline Fromont

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Dept

Erika Hoffman

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student / Dept

Fabbri, Anthony

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Farcy, Benjamin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Farnham, Tony

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Ferrara, Elizabeth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Finley, Matthew

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Fixsen, Dale

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Fromont, Emeline

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Gamble, Ronald

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

Giannina Guzman Caloca

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Dept

Goldenberg-Hart, Aidan

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Grell, Gabriel

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Gurram, Harsha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Gursahani, Yash

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Hamilton, Douglas

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Hammerstein, Erica

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Hankla, Amelia


Harris, Andrew

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair

Harrison, Erica

Job Titles:
  • CRESST II Manager

Hartzell, Christine

Job Titles:
  • Affiliate Associate Professor

Hayes-Gehrke, Melissa

Job Titles:
  • Principal Lecturer and Undergraduate Director / Advisor

Hayley Beltz

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Heap, Sally

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Henning, Wade

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Hewagama, Tilak

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Hirsch, Benjamin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Hoffman, Erika

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Reynolds

Holt, Isiah

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Miller

Honniball, Casey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

Huard, Tracy

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Hull, Samuel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Hunt, James

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Igor Andreoni

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Associate - Neil Gehrels Fellow

Ih, Jegug


John Dailey

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Senior Faculty Specialist

Jung, Jaewoong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

K. Dennis Papadopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Space and Plasma Physics Group
  • Professor Emeritus
Dennis Papadopoulos is the head of the Space and Plasma Physics Group (SPP). For information about his research, please see:

Karim, Ramsey

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Katya Ann Leidig

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student / Dept

Kazmierczak, Jeanette

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Keith Arnaud

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Kelley, Mike

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Kempton, Eliza

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Director

Kim, Yaeji

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Kimbrell, Dorinda - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Kittrell, DeOndre

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Faculty Specialist

Kloos, Jacob

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Knight, Matthew

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor

Knudson, Christine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Kocjan, Zuzanna

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Kostov, Veselin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

Kruse, Ethan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Kutyrev, Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

L. Drake

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Professor

Lauren Miles

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Specialist

Lawton, Pat

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Lehr, Susan

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator of Business Services

Leidig, Katya

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Li, Jialu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Livengood, Tim

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Loewenstein, Michael

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

MacKenzie Samartzis

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Martos Martin

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Matthew Nixon

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Mattson, Barb

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Principal Faculty Specialist

Mbarek, Rostom

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate - Neil Gehrels Fellow

Mekonnen, Nardos

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Melissa Hayes-Gehrke

Job Titles:
  • Principal Lecturer and Undergraduate Director / Advisor
Dr. Hayes-Gehrke is an instructor in the department specializing in teaching non-science major students.

Michell, Robert

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Miles, Lauren

Job Titles:
  • Academic Program Specialist

Mitchell, Sara

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Moiseev, Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Moriarty, Daniel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Mundy, Lee

Job Titles:
  • Professor and LMA Director and CRESST II Director

Nathalia Sarai Martinez Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Neufeld, David

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Professor

Neveu, Marc

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Ng, Jonathan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Nixon, Matthew

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

O'Connor, Brendan

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Ogorzalek, Anna

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

Oruitemeka, Joyce

Job Titles:
  • Student Worker

Papadopoulos, K. Dennis

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Peck, Alison

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Research Scientist

Perez, Yesenia

Job Titles:
  • Student Office Assistant

Pound, Marc

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Pritchard, Tyler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Assistant Research Scientist

R. Sander

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Rauch, Kevin

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Reddy, Francis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Principal Faculty Specialist

Renaud, Joe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Reynolds, Chris

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Rice, Rachel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Richardson, Derek

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Richardson, Ian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Ricotti, Massimo

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robbins, Joshua

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Romanelli, Norberto

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Rostom Mbarek

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Rowe, Natalie

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Sage, Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Research Scientist

Sankar, Shannon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Sasaki, Makoto

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Savel, Arjun

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Kempton

Scheidt, Stephen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Associate Research Scientist

Segura, Marcia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Principal Faculty Specialist

Serena Cronin

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Dept
Serena Cronin (she/her) is a second-year graduate student working with Dr. Alberto Bolatto on analyzing outflows in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2020 with a B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics where she worked with Dr. Adam Leroy on characterizing supernova environments in local galaxies. Broadly, she is interested in galaxy evolution, star formation, the interstellar medium, and radio astronomy.

Sharkey, Benjamin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Senior Faculty Specialist

Shaya, Edward

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Shockley, Steven

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Shuster, Jason

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Singer, Leo

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor

Solanki, Siddhant

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Reynolds

Southard, Adrian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Visiting Associate Research Engineer

Sunshine, Jessica

Job Titles:
  • Professor and SBG Director

Suresh, Hannah

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Tan, Lun-Chang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Senior Faculty Specialist

Terry, Sean

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Teuben, Peter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Thaddeus Komacek

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Thorpe, Michael

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Tombesi, Francesco

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Ugalino, Mark

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Uy, Alan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Vaidya, Varada

Job Titles:
  • CRESST II Coordinator

Valencia, Sarah

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Vega, Laura

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Veilleux, Sylvain

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Optical Director

Vogel, Stuart

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Volpert, Carrie

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

W. L. Upson

Job Titles:
  • CNO Abundances in the Sun and Arcturus and the 12C / 13C Ratio in Arcturus

Warner, Elizabeth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Principal Faculty Specialist and Observatory Director

Washington, Antoine

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student / Sunshine

Welch, Brian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team

Wellnitz, Dennis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Principal Faculty Specialist

Williams, Jonathan

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Wright, Esteban

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Postdocs and Faculty Assistants Team
  • Post Doctoral Associate

Wu, Wenxi

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Yates, Eric

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Ye, Quanzhi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Zoghbi, Abdu

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the Research and Specialized Faculty Team
  • Research Scientist

Zuzanna Kocjan

Job Titles:
  • Grad Student / Dept