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.
Alexa Anderson Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, B-101
Casey Brinkman NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ph.D. Topic: Understanding the Diversity of Rocky Planet Compositions, and their Connection to Host Star Abundances
Committee Chair: Dan Huber
Committee Chair: Dan Huber
IfA Mānoa
Ph.D. Topic: Understanding the Diversity of Rocky Planet Compositions, and their Connection to Host Star Abundances
Erica Bufanda PhD Candidate, Soroptimist Fellow, JPL intern
IfA Mānoa
PhD Thesis: Volatile Vehicles to the Past: Characterizing the Activity of Long Period Comets
Federica Chiti Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, B101
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-233 (Digital Siberia)
Characterizing Rotation and Magnetic Evolution of TESS Stars
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
SURPH (Software Utility for Relative PHotometry), Co-Designed ASTR 399 (Introduction to Astronomical Research) w/ Dr. Roy Gal
James Ou Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. Topic: Mass Distributions of Binary Asteroids in Main Belt Families
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
Committee Chair: Christoph Baranec
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
Aldo Sepulveda NSF Graduate Research Fellow, ΦKΦ Graduate Fellow
IfA Mānoa
Michael Tucker DOE CSGF Fellow
IfA Mānoa, C-233
IfA Mānoa, C-225
High Contrast Spectropolarimetric Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks
Jingwen Zhang Graduate Student
IfA Mānoa, C-127
