Members of the Reynolds Group
Prof. Chris Reynolds
(Professor of Astronomy)
Dr. Amelia (Lia) Hankla
(Hubble Fellow, UMD)
Dr. Vanessa Lopez-Barquero
(Postdoc. Res. Assoc., UMD)
Yash Gursahani
(PhD student, UMD)
Erika Hoffman
(PhD student, UMD)
Annabelle Richard-Laferriere
(PhD student, Cambridge)
Hannah McCright
(Undergrad Researcher, UMD)
Joshua Robbins
(Undergrad Researcher, UMD)
Former group members : graduate students
| Laura Brenneman | (UMD PhD 2007; Chair of High Energy Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
| Elyse Casper | (UMD MPhil 2007) |
| David Garofalo | (UMD PhD 2008; Professor at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA) |
| John Vernaleo | (UMD PhD 2008; Vice Presiden of Engineering at Bloq, Inc) |
| Lisa Winter | (UMD PhD 2008; Program Manager at the National Science Foundation, VA, USA) |
| Barbara Mattson | (UMD PhD 2008; Astrophysics Communication Scientist at NASA-Goddard, MD, USA) |
| Edmund Hodges-Kluck | (UMD PhD 2011; Civil Servant at NASA-Goddard, Greenbelt, MD) |
| Kareen Sorathia | (UMD PhD 2011; Computational Physicist at JHU Applied Physics Lab, Maryland, USA) |
| Anne Lohfink | (UMD PhD 2014; Associate Professor at Montana State University, USA) |
| Mark Avara | (UMD PhD 2017; Postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA) |
| Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez | (UMD PhD 2017; Program Officer for Science at Heising-Simons Foundation) |
| James (Drew) Hogg | (UMD PhD 2018; working in data science / machine learning sector) |
| Henry Dicke | (Cambridge MAst 2018) |
| Gareth Roberg-Clark | (UMD PhD 2019; Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik) |
| Christopher Bambic | (Cambridge MPhil 2019; PhD student at Princeton) |
| Harry Rendell | (Cambridge MAst 2019; PhD student in Edinburgh) |
| Megan Masterson | (Cambridge MAst 2020; PhD student at MIT) |
| Corbin Taylor | (UMD PhD candidate 2021; now with Amazon AWS) |
| Alex Osbourne | (Cambridge MAst 2022) |
| Robyn Smith | (UMD PhD 2022; Data Scientist at Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) |
| Sam Turner | (Cambridge PhD 2023; Postdoc in Dept of Applied Maths, Cambridge, UK) |
| Julia Sisk-Reynes | (Cambridge PhD 2024; Postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA) |
| Payton Rodman | (Cambridge PhD 2025) |
Former group members : postdoctoral researchers
| Barry McKernan | (UMD postdoc 2003–2006; Professor at BMCC, New York City, USA) |
| Tamara Bogdanovic | (UMD CTC+Einstein Fellow 2006–2012; Professor at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA) |
| Sean O’Neill | (UMD postdoc 2007–2010; Asst. Professor at Pacific Lutheran Univ., WA, USA) |
| Margaret Trippe | (UMD postdoc 2009–2012; Staff Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman Space Systems) |
| Abdu Zoghbi | (UMD postdoc 2010–2013; Research Scientist at NASA-Goddard, Greenbelt, MD) |
| Francesco Tombesi | (UMD research faculty 2010–2016; Associate Professor, University of Rome, Italy) |
| Javier Garcia | (UMD postdoc 2011–2012; Civil Servant at NASA-Goddard, Greenbelt, MD) |
| Roman Shcherbakov | (UMD Hubble Fellow 2011–2014; Staff Software Engineer at Twitter) |
| Brian Morsony | (UMD postdoc 2014–2017; Associate Professor at California State, Stanislaus) |
| Karen Yang | (UMD Einstein Fellow 2014–2017; Assistant Professor at NTHU, Taiwan) |
| Erin Kara | (UMD Hubble Fellow 2015–2018; Assistant Professor at MIT) |
| Sergey Komarov | (Cambridge postdoc 2018–2021) |
| Sergei Dyda | (Cambridge postdoc 2018–2021; Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) |
| James Matthews | (Cambridge Herchel Smith Fellow 2019–2022; Hintze Fellow in Oxford) |
| Michael Parker | (Cambridge postdoc 2021–2023 ; currently AI Principal Scientist at Optibrium) |
| Prakriti Pal Choudhury | (Cambridge ERC postdoc 2020–2023; postdoc in plasma physics at Oxford) |
| Mark Avara | (Cambridge ERC postdoc 2020–2023; currently postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA) |
| Jiachen Jiang | (Cambridge Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2022-2024; currently Teaching Fellow at Warwick University) |
| Greg Marcel | (Cambridge ERC postdoc 2021-2024; currently postdoc at University of Turku, Finland) |
Former group members : undergraduate researchers
| Philip Cowperthwaite | (UMD graduated 2013; freelance photographer in Maryland) |
| Allison Bostrom | UMD graduated 2015; Program Associate, World Justice Program) |
| Jennifer Liang | (UMD graduated 2016) |
| Aneesh Agarwal | (Cambridge graduated 2023; MAst-Physics student in Cambridge) |
| Esin Gulbahar | (Cambridge summer research program 2022; Young Graduate Trainee at ESA) |