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.
Gagandeep Anand Graduate Student
Ph.D. Topic: Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to Nearby Galaxies
Committee Chair: Brent Tully
Committee Chair: Brent Tully
IfA Mānoa
Alexa Anderson Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, B-101
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
Casey Brinkman NSF Graduate Research Fellow
IfA Mānoa
Ph.D. Topic: Understanding the Diversity of Rocky Planet Compositions, and their Connection to Host Star Abundances
Ashley Chontos NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ph.D. Topic: Precise Stellar and Planet Properties in the Kepler, K2, & TESS Era
Committee Chair: Daniel Huber
Committee Chair: Daniel Huber
IfA Mānoa, C-127
Asteroseismology of Exoplanet Hosts with Kepler, K2, and TESS, Exoplanets Orbiting Subgiants: Benchmark Systems with TESS
Zach Claytor PhD Candidate
Ph.D. Topic: Characterizing Rotation and Magnetic Evolution of TESS Stars
Committee Chair: Jennifer van Saders
Committee Chair: Jennifer van Saders
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
Ph.D. Topic: The Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Low-mass Young Stars
Committee Chair: Michael Connelley
Committee Chair: Michael Connelley
IfA Hawaii island
The evolution of magnetic field strengths in young stars, Thermal inhomogeneities on the surface of young stars, Physical properties of edge-on disks using ALMA observations
Jason Hinkle Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
Mackenzie James Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
Suchitra Narayanan Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
James Ou Graduate Research Assistant
IfA Hawaii island, 132
Dynamics of Main Belt Binary Asteroids, Robo-AO
Maïssa Salama Graduate Student
Ph.D. Topic: Large Adaptive optics Survey for Substellar Objects (LASSO) at wide separations around young, nearby, low-mass stars with Robo-AO
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
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)
Jingwen Zhang Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa
