Graduate Students

Azeem Bari
Active Galactic Nuclei, Dwarf Galaxies, X-Ray Astronomy

Email: azeem.bari@Vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th and Horton, A3106

Harrison Blake-Goszyk

Email: h.g.blake-goszyk@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th and Horton, A3105

Kamara Culbreath

Email: kamara.s.culbreath@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3112

Collin Dabbieri (He/Him)
Quasar Broad Line Region Variability

Email: collin.m.dabbieri@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6608

Suyash Deshmukh
Machine Learning, Gravitational Waves

Email: suyash.deshmukh@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3105

Don Dixon (He/Him)
Stellar Evolution & Stellar Populations

Email: don.m.dixon@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Remote

Carolyn Drake (She/Her/Hers)
LISA/Massive Black Hole Binaries/Galaxies/AGN

Email: carolyn.drake@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3120-3

Sam Dunham (He/Him/His)
Core-collapse supernovae, hydrodynamics, general relativity, computational astrophysics

Email: samuel.j.dunham@vanderbilt.edu
Office: @UT-Knoxville, South College, Room 310

Kyle Gersbach (He/Him/His)
Gravitational Wave Detection and Astrophysics

Email: kyle.a.gersbach@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6911

Olivia A. Greene (She/Her/Hers)
Galaxy Formation and Evolution, E+A Galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei

Email: olivia.a.weaver@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3116

Brayan Hernandez (He/Him)

Email: brayan.hernandez@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3105

Zachary Hoelscher

Email: zachary.j.hoelscher@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3104

KeShawn Ivory (He/Him/His)

Email: keshawn.ivory@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6902

Mary Kaldor (She/Her/Hers)

Email: mary.e.kaldor@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3106

William G. Lamb (He/Him/His)
Gravitational wave astrophysics & cosmology, Pulsar Timing Arrays, NANOGrav

Email: william.g.lamb@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3120

Sofía Martínez Fortis (She/Her)
High-energy, gravitational, and stellar astrophysics

Email: sofia.martinez.fortis@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Natasha McMann (She/Her/Hers)
Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Waves

Email: natasha.l.mcmann@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Kaylah McGowan

Email: kaylah.b.mcgowan@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3112

Ryan Nowicki (She/They)
Gravitational Waves, Numerical Relativity, Black Hole Astrophysics

Email: ryan.nowicki@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3104

Jorge Padial
Solar Flare Prediction, Machine Leaning, Big Data, Convex Optimization, Computer Vision, Databases

Email: jorge.r.padial.doble@vanderbilt.edu
Office: @@UChicago, John Crerar Building CS Department, Office 385

Polina Petrov (She/Her)
Supermassive black holes, gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy

Email: polina.petrov@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6911

Michael Rizzo Smith (He/Him)
Hydrodynamic Simulations, Accretion Disks, Gravitational Waves

Email: michael.smith.4@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3104

Jaelyn Roth (She/Her)
Massive Black Holes, Cosmological Simulations, LISA

Email: jaelyn.roth@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3104

Krystal Ruiz-Rocha (She/Her)
Gravitational Waves, Gravitational recoil, and Black Holes

Email: krystal.m.ruiz-rocha.1@Vanderbilt.Edu
Office: SC 6911

Jessica Schonhut-Stasik (She/Her)
Galactic Archaeology, Binary Stars, and Asteroseismology

Email: Jessica.s.stasik@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Levi Schult (She/All)
Gravitational Waves, Pulsars, Black Holes, Machine Learning

Email: levi.s.schult@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6902

Bill Smith (He/Him/His)
Gravitational Wave Cosmology

Email: william.j.smith@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 17th & Horton, A3120

Crisel Suarez (She/Her)
SAO Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Solar Physics

Email: crisel.suarez@vanderbilt.edu
Office: @Harvard & Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics, CfA-P147

Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Students

Jose Arita-Escalante (He/Them)
General Relativity and Cosmology, Solutions to Einstein’s Equations

Email: jose.r.arita-escalante@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Nicholas-Tyler Howard (He/Him)
Black Holes

Email: nicholas-tyler.howard@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Shaniya Jarrett

Email: shaniya.m.jarrett@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Cassandra Moats (She/Her)

Email: cassandra.a.moats@vanderbilt.edu
Office:

Jonathan Rodriguez

Email: jonathan.j.rodriguez@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6911

Jordan Sibley

Email: jordan.sibley@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC 6911

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