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Philip S. Muirhead<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor, Department of Astronomy<\/a>
\nDirector, Perkins Telescope Observatory<\/a>
\nPrincipal Investigator<\/p>\n

Current Graduate Students<\/h4>\n

Fira Fatmasiefa<\/p>\n

Current Undergraduate Students<\/h4>\n

Larianna Ramsey<\/p>\n

Former Graduate Students:<\/h4>\n

Allison McCarthy<\/a> (PhD ’25, now a postdoc at Trinity College Dublin)
\nAlexis Lane (MA ’24, now a staff scientist at Naval Research Laboratory)
\nPatrick Tamburo<\/a> (PhD ’22, now a postdoc at Harvard University)
\nAlice Hall<\/a> (MA ’22, now a Grant Writing Associate at Sonick Group)
\nEunkyu Han<\/a> (PhD ’20, now a staff scientist at Space Telescope Science Insititute)
\nAurora Kesseli<\/a> (PhD ’19, now a staff scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)
\nMark Veyette<\/a> (PhD \u201818, now a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin)
\nPaul Dalba<\/a> (PhD \u201918, now a data scientist at Apple)<\/p>\n

Former Postdoctoral\u00a0Associates:<\/h4>\n

Julie Skinner<\/a> (Postdoctoral Associate, 2016-2018, now staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory)
\nBryce Croll<\/a> (Postdoctoral Associate, 2015-2016, now staff at Paravision)<\/p>\n

Former Undergraduate Researchers:<\/h4>\n

Corinna Olson<\/a> (BU ’23, now an MA student at the University of Amsterdam)
\nThomas Savatovksy<\/a> (BU ’23, now a PhD student at the Science Institute of Tokyo)
\n<\/span>Bhargavi Thakar<\/a> (BU ’22, now a PhD student at Georgia Tech)
\nDavid Gracia<\/a> (BU ’22, now a PhD student at the Univ. of Oklahoma)
\nSheila Sagear<\/a> <\/span> (BU ’20, now a PhD student at Univ. of Florida)
\nGeorgia Stolle-McAllister<\/a> (BA’ 20 Kenyon College, now a PhD student at Univ. of Washington)
\nJay Chittidi<\/a> (BA ’18 Vassar College, now a PhD student at CU Boulder)
\nMadeleine\u00a0O\u2019Keefe<\/a> (BA \u201918, MS ’19, now staff at FermiLab)
\nBrian Healy<\/a> (BA \u201917, now a postdoc at the Univ. of Minnesota)
\nZachary Hall<\/a> (BA \u201917, now a philosophy PhD student at Stanford)
\nHoward Chen<\/a> (BA \u201916, now an assistant professor at the Florida Institute of Technology)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philip S. Muirhead Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy Director, Perkins Telescope Observatory Principal Investigator Current Graduate Students Fira Fatmasiefa Current Undergraduate Students Larianna Ramsey 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7725,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/smallstars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}