Dr. Ryan Cloutier (he/him/his)

Assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
ryan.cloutier [at] mcmaster.ca

Dr. Ares Osborn (they/he)

Postdoctoral fellow
Exoplanet demographics, precision radial velocity, NIRPS, HARPS, TESS.
e.osborn [at] warwick.ac.uk

Erik Gillis (he/him/his)

MSc student
Exoplanet demographics, mid-to-late M dwarfs, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
gillie1 [at] mcmaster.ca

Nicole Gromek (she/her/hers)

MSc student
Stellar spectroscopy, FGKM dwarfs, exoplanet composition, SPIRou.
gromekn [at] mcmaster.ca

Bennett Skinner

MSc student
(co-supervised by Prof. Ralph Pudritz)
Water world formation, M dwarf radius valley, population synthesis.
skinnb1 [at] mcmaster.ca

Phil Van-Lane

PhD student at the University of Toronto
(co-supervised by Prof. Gwen Eadie & Prof. Joshua Speagle)
Gyrochronology, exoplanet demographics, machine learning.
phil.vanlane [at] mail.utoronto.ca

Drew Weisserman

MSc student
Super-Earth composition, M dwarfs, precision radial velocity, NIRPS.
weisserd [at] mcmaster.ca

Raven Westlake

MSc student
(co-supervised by Prof. Alison Sills)
White dwarf atmospheres, M dwarf winds, HST/COS UV spectroscopy.
westlakr1 [at] mcmaster.ca

Rohan Kumar Prasad

MITACS Globalink research undergraduate.
Physical Sciences (IISER Kolkata).
Stellar flares, software development, M dwarfs, TESS.
rohankumarprasad [at] yahoo.com

Leo Wang

NSERC USRA student.
Arts & Science Physics Honours (McMaster University).
Exoplanet atmospheres, atmospheric retrieval, JWST.
wangl264 [at] mcmaster.ca

Alumni

Kareena Bhalla (Undergraduate thesis 2023-24, & NSERC USRA student)
Audrey Burggraf (Undergraduate thesis 2023-24)
Collin Cherubim (Harvard Earth & Planetary Sciences PhD student project, 2021-22, paper)
Omar Elmi (McWork student undergraduate, Summer 2023)
Dante Hunter (Undergraduate thesis 2023-24 & co-op student.)
Victor Pop (Independent study undergraduate, Winter 2023)
Anna Simpson (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian REU student, Summer 2021)
Madison VanWyngarden (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian REU student, Summer 2022)
Ava Whitehead (Integrated Science/iSci Level III undergraduate project, Winter 2023)