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High-Energy Astrophysics Group
Welcome to the Reynolds Group!
Current group members
Prof. Chris Reynolds
Distinguished University Professor
Dr. Tyler Trent
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr. Amelia (Lia) Hankla
Hubble Fellow
Dr. Jillian Rastinejad
Hubble Fellow
Yash Gursahani
PhD student
Erika Hoffman
PhD student
Brooke Kaluzienski
PhD student
Rachel Hemmer
Postbac researcher
Sierra Larson
Undergraduate student
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)
- John Vernaleo (UMD PhD 2008; Vice President of Engineering at Bloq, Inc.)
- Lisa Winter (UMD PhD 2008; Program Manager at NSF)
- Barbara Mattson (UMD PhD 2008; Astrophysics Communication Scientist at NASA Goddard)
- Edmund Hodges-Kluck (UMD PhD 2011; NASA Goddard)
- Kareen Sorathia (UMD PhD 2011; JHU Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Anne Lohfink (UMD PhD 2014; Montana State University)
- Mark Avara (UMD PhD 2017; Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez (UMD PhD 2017; Heising-Simons Foundation)
- James (Drew) Hogg (UMD PhD 2018; data science / machine learning)
- Henry Dicke (Cambridge MAst 2018)
- Gareth Roberg-Clark (UMD PhD 2019; Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik)
- Christopher Bambic (Cambridge MPhil 2019; Princeton)
- Harry Rendell (Cambridge MAst 2019; Edinburgh)
- Megan Masterson (Cambridge MAst 2020; MIT)
- Corbin Taylor (UMD PhD candidate 2021; Amazon AWS)
- Alex Osbourne (Cambridge MAst 2022)
- Robyn Smith (UMD PhD 2022; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
- Sam Turner (Cambridge PhD 2023; Applied Maths, Cambridge)
- Julia Sisk-Reynes (Cambridge PhD 2024; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- Payton Rodman (Cambridge PhD 2025; Software Engineer for Darktrace)
Former group members · postdoctoral researchers
- Barry McKernan (UMD postdoc 2003–2006; BMCC)
- Tamara Bogdanovic (UMD CTC + Einstein Fellow 2006–2012; Georgia Tech)
- Sean O’Neill (UMD postdoc 2007–2010; Pacific Lutheran University)
- Margaret Trippe (UMD postdoc 2009–2012; Northrop Grumman Space Systems)
- Abdu Zoghbi (UMD postdoc 2010–2013; NASA Goddard)
- Francesco Tombesi (UMD research faculty 2010–2016; University of Rome)
- Javier Garcia (UMD postdoc 2011–2012; NASA Goddard)
- Roman Shcherbakov (UMD Hubble Fellow 2011–2014; Twitter)
- Brian Morsony (UMD postdoc 2014–2017; California State, Stanislaus)
- Karen Yang (UMD Einstein Fellow 2014–2017; NTHU, Taiwan)
- Erin Kara (UMD Hubble Fellow 2015–2018; MIT)
- Sergey Komarov (Cambridge postdoc 2018–2021)
- Sergei Dyda (Cambridge postdoc 2018–2021; University of Virginia)
- James Matthews (Cambridge Herchel Smith Fellow 2019–2022; Oxford)
- Michael Parker (Cambridge postdoc 2021–2023; Optibrium)
- Prakriti Pal Choudhury (Cambridge ERC postdoc 2020–2023; Oxford)
- Mark Avara (Cambridge ERC postdoc 2020–2023; Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Jiachen Jiang (Cambridge Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2022–2024; Warwick)
- Greg Marcel (Cambridge ERC postdoc 2021–2024; University of Turku)
- Vanessa Lopez-Barquero (Cambridge+UMD postdoc 2021–2025)
Former group members · undergraduate researchers
- Philip Cowperthwaite (UMD graduated 2013; freelance photographer in Maryland)
- Allison Bostrom (UMD graduated 2015; 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)
Prospective students and postdocs
Watch this space for opportunities!