Last updated: April 25, 2024.
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)