People in the WVU Center for Astrophysics
Faculty:
Loren Anderson – Assistant Professor – Galactic AstronomyFelix J. Lockman – Adjunct Professor – Galactic Astronomy
Duncan Lorimer – Associate Professor – Pulsars, radio transients, signal processing
Maura McLaughlin – Assistant Professor – Multiwavelength studies of pulsars and radio transients
Karen O’Neil – Adjunct Professor – Star Formation and Extragalactic Astronomy
D.J. Pisano – Assistant Professor – Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Manjari Bagchi – Globular cluster theoryLina Levin – Correcting interstellar delays in NANOGrav data
Sam Bates – Radio PulsarsStaff:
Alexandra Golubovic – PIRE group administrator
Nate Garver-Daniels – System administrator
Graduate students:
Jason Boyles – Pulsar searches
Jayanth Chennamangalam – Globular cluster pulsars
Justin Ellis – Pulsar timing and gravitational wave detection
Mitch Mickaliger – Transient detection
Josh Miller – RRATs and X-ray data analysis
Nipuni Palliyaguru – RRATs
Benetge Perera – Double pulsar interactions
Joe Swiggum – Pulsar timing
Katie Rabidoux – Galaxies
Bingyi Cui – Timing RRATs
Rossina Miller – Timing RRATs
Fernando Cardoso – Timing PALFA pulsars
Spencer Wolfe – Galaxies
Undergraduate students:
Caitlin Ahrens – X-ray observations of black widow pulsars
Angela Cortes-Nieves – Searches for perytons
Nathan Tehrani – Initial spins of pulsars
Craig Tenney – Double neutron star systems in Globular Clusters
Adam Collins – Gravitars
Former students:
Stas Edel – Gravitational lensing, PALFA searches, magnetars – now a graduate student at NMTJosh Ridley – Pulsar populations – now assistant Professor at Murray State
Tabitha Smith – RRATs, searching Andromeda Galaxy for giant radio bursts – now a graduate student at GWU
Jason Boyles, Search for new pulsars and characterizing their properties through multiwavelength studies. Statistical analysis of globular cluster pulsar population.
Dominic Ludovici – HI studies of galaxies, GMRT searches, magnetars – now a graduate student at Iowa
Former members:
Paulo Freire – Now at Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radio Astronomie, Bonn, Germany
Vlad Kondratiev – Now at Astron in the Netherlands
Joris Verbiest – Now at Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radio Astronomie, Bonn, Germany
In loving memory:
Jack Littleton – former Emeritus Professor – Stellar spectra
The group as of April 28, 2010 pictured on the grassy knoll outside Hodges Hall.
Left group: Jayanth Chennamangalam, Jason Boyles, Dominic Ludovici, Josh Miller, Gary Marchini, Justin Ellis, Josh Ridley, Priyadarshini Bangale
Right group (back row): Mitch Mickaliger, Spencer Wolfe, Tabitha Smith, Benetge Perera
Right group (front row): Manjari Bagchi, Katie Rabidoux, Nipuni Palliyaguri, D.J. Pisano, Duncan Lorimer
Missing from photo: Jack Littleton, Maura McLaughlin, Stas Edel
The group as of May 28, 2009 pictured on the grassy knoll outside of Hodges.
Back row: Joris Verbiest, Tabitha Smith, Duncan Lorimer, Jason Boyles, Mitch Mickaliger, Spencer Wolfe
Front row: Vlad Kondratiev, Paulo Freire, Maura McLaughlin, D.J. Pisano, Dominic Ludovici, Stas Edel, Katie Rabidoux, Ben Perera
Missing from photo: Jack Littleton, Josh Ridley, Josh Miller
The group as of March 31, 2008 pictured at the WVU observatory. From left to right: Ben Perera, Stas Edel, Dominic Ludovici, Spencer Wolfe, Vlad Kondratiev, Mitch Mickaliger, Dunc Lorimer, Maura McLaughlin, Josh Miller, Robert Simmons, Josh Ridley, Jason Boyles & Jack Littleton
