Research group

Research Group Hot Jupiters EKL The First Galaxies SIGOs


Group Pictures

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Group meetings and plot party

Current members

Postdoc
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Erez Michaely
Grad students
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Isabel Angelo
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Thea Faridani
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William Lake
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Denyz Melchor
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Liz  Holzknecht
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Claire Williams
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Zeyuan Xuan
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Grant Weldon

Undergrad students
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Carlos Jurado
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Cheyanne Shariat
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Nicholas Inzunza
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Brayan Hernandez
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Lauren Harvey

Former members

Postdocs
  • Santiago Torres October 2020 – August 2023; Now a Marie Curie fellow at Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
  • Brenna Mockler August–December 2022, UC Chancellor fellow; Now a Carnegie fellow.
Grad students
  • Sanaea Rose (graduate student @ UCLA) Now a Lindheimer Fellow and a CIERA Fellow at CIERA NU
  • Bao-Minh Hoang (graduate student @ UCLA) Now working at Kall Morris Inc. (an orbital debris research and solution development company)
  • Jesus Salas (graduate student @ UCLA) Now UCLA lecturer and Harvard-Westlake School faculty
  • Alexander Stephan (graduate student @ UCLA) Now Buckeye Prize and presidential postdoc fellow @ OSU
  • Yeou Chiou (graduate student @ UCLA) Now a Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn
  • Gongjie Li (graduate student @ Harvard) was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Now faculty @ Georgia Tech
  • Cristina Popa (graduate student @ Harvard) Now work @ Two Sigma Investments
Undergrad students
  • Melodie Sloneker (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad student @ Georgia State University
  • Nitya Ravi (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad student @ University of Rochester
  • Eric Zhan (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad student @ UCR
  • Huiyi (Cheryl) Wang (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad student @ McGill University
  • Shelley Cheng (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad student @ Harvard
  • Lingfeng Wei (Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology (CSST), UCLA summer program with China and Japan) Now a grad student @ UCSD
  • Paul Denham (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad student @ UCLA
  • Isabella Goetting (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad student @ Duke University
  • Ahmed Qureshi (undergrad @ UCLA) Now works @ Amazon
  • Igor Van Der Put (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a researcher @ UCLA
  • Cicero Xinyu Lu (undergrad @ UCLA) Now a grad @ Johns Hopkins
  • Joseph Guzman (undergrad @ Cal-Bridge an\ d REU @ UCLA) Now grad @ Florida State
  • Jean Teyssandier (undergrad @ Northwestern) Now postdoc @ Cornell
  • Ian Lizarraga (undergrad @ Northwestern) Now a Visiting Assistant Professor @ Cornell Math department

Contact Information

Email: snaoz@astro.ucla.edu

Mailing:Physics and Astronomy Building 430 Portola Plaza, Box 951547 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 Office: 3-907

CV: (pdf)

Publications: (ADS)

Funding sources
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Special thanks to Howard and Astrid Preston for their generous support