People

Philip S. Muirhead
Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy
Director, Perkins Telescope Observatory

Current Graduate Students

Fira Fatmasiefa

Current Undergraduate Students

Rose Zhou
Emilio Shutan

Former Graduate Students:

Allison McCarthy (PhD ’25, now a postdoc at Trinity College Dublin)
Alexis Lane (MA ’24, now a staff scientist at Naval Research Laboratory)
Patrick Tamburo (PhD ’22, now a postdoc at Harvard University)
Alice Hall (MA ’22, now a Grant Writing Associate at Sonick Group)
Eunkyu Han (PhD ’20, now a staff scientist at Space Telescope Science Insititute)
Aurora Kesseli (PhD ’19, now a staff scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)
Mark Veyette (PhD ‘18, now a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin)
Paul Dalba (PhD ’18, now a data scientist at Apple)

Former Postdoctoral Associates:

Julie Skinner (Postdoctoral Associate, 2016-2018, now staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory)
Bryce Croll (Postdoctoral Associate, 2015-2016, now a data scientist at AVP)

Former Undergraduate Researchers:

Corinna Olson (BU ’23, now at the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy)
Thomas Savatovksy (BU ’23, now a PhD student at the Science Institute of Tokyo)
Bhargavi Thakar (BU ’22, now a PhD student at Georgia Tech)
David Gracia (BU ’22, now a PhD student at the Univ. of Oklahoma)
Sheila Sagear (BU ’20, now a Flatiron Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics)
Georgia Stolle-McAllister (BA’ 20 Kenyon College, now at the Museum of Science Boston)
Jay Chittidi (BA ’18 Vassar College, now a PhD student at CU Boulder)
Madeleine O’Keefe (BA ’18, MS ’19, now staff at FermiLab)
Brian Healy (BA ’17, now a data scientist at IMO Health)
Zachary Hall (BA ’17, now a philosophy PhD student at Stanford)
Howard Chen (BA ’16, now an assistant professor at the Florida Institute of Technology)