Most graduate students are based at IfA Mānoa, located in the city of Honolulu on the island of O‘ahu. Some are located on the neighbor islands, at our IfA Hilo and IfA Maui locations.
Ellis Avallone Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, C-127
Travis Berger Graduate Student, FINESST Future Investigator
Ph.D. Topic: Precise Radius, Metallicity, and Age Demographics of Exoplanets in the Gaia Era
Committee Chair: Dan Huber
Committee Chair: Dan Huber
IfA Mānoa, C-213A
Precise Radius, Metallicity, and Age Demographics of Exoplanets in the Gaia Era
Ashley Chontos NSF Graduate Research Fellow
IfA Mānoa, C-127
Asteroseismology of Exoplanet Hosts with Kepler, K2, and TESS
Laurie Chu (née Urban) Graduate Student
Molecular Clouds, Comets, Astrochemistry/Astrobiology
Zach Claytor PhD Candidate
IfA Mānoa, C-127
Characterizing Rotation and Magnetic Evolution of TESS Stars
Ian Cunnyngham Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
Ryan Dungee Ph.D. Candidate
IfA Hawaii island
Predicitve Control in Ground Layer Adaptive Optics, Rotation Periods of M dwarfs in M67 and Rup 147
Christian Flores Gonzalez Graduate Student
IfA Hawaii island
The Evolution of Magnetic Field Strengths in Young Stars
Jason Hinkle Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
Ehsan Kourkchi Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, B133
Cosmicflows-4: Recovering the Structure and Dynamics of the Local Universe
James Ou Graduate Research Assistant
IfA Hawaii island, 132
Dynamics of Main Belt Binary Asteroids, Robo-AO
Andrew Repp Graduate Research Assistant (NESSF fellow)
IfA Mānoa, C-225
Hawaii 2-0 Survey (NEP and CDF-S), Sufficient Statistics for Dense Galaxy Surveys, Characterization of Galaxy Bias
Maïssa Salama Graduate Student
IfA Hawaii island
LASSO (Large Adaptive optics Survey for Substellar Objects), Robo-AO, SAPHIRA detector
Michael Tucker DOE CSGF Fellow
IfA Mānoa, C-233
Zhoujian Zhang Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, B-227
COCONUTS (COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS), Forward-Modeling Analysis of Ultracool Dwarf Atmospheres, Survey of young brown dwarfs and free-floating planets in nearby star-forming regions (e.g., Taurus, Upper Scorpius)
