Joseph F. Hennawi
Intergalactic and circumgalactic medium, galaxy formation, quasars and AGN, absorption line techniques, data mining.
- +1-805-893-3503
- joe@physics.ucsb.edu
Group Leader
PhD Students
Shane Bechtel
High Redshift IGM, Quasar Light Echoes.
Diego González
Machine Learning and statistics for the Lyman-alpha forest.
Elia Pizzati
Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes Growth.
Silvia Onorato
High Redshift Quasars, Reionization of IGM.
Timo Kist
High-z Quasar Damping Wings, Simulation-based Inference.
Ben Wang
Damped Lya Systems(DLAs), Type-II QSOs at high redshift.
Jiamu Huang
High-z Quasars and Galaxies, SMBH formation and evolution.
Da Ming Yang
High-z quasars, Spectroscopy.
Yi Kang
Density estimation with machine learning.
Benjamin Snyder
High-z quasars, Clustering Statistics.
Former Group Members
| Name | Position Held | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Molly Wolfson | PhD student 2018-2024 | CCAPP Fellow at Ohio State University |
| Linda Zhenyu Jin | Undergraduate student 2022-2024 | Researcher at LBNL/Berkeley |
| Teng Hu | PhD student 2017-2024 | |
| Vikram Khaire | Postdoc 2023-2024 | |
| Caitlin Doughty | Postdoc 2021-2024 | |
| J.T. Schindler | Postdoc 2021-2023 | Faculty at University of Hamburg |
| Suk Sien Tie | Postdoc 2020-2023 | Now working in industry |
| Koki Kakiichi | Postdoc 2019-2023 | DAWN fellow at University of Copenhagen |
| Riccardo Nanni | Postdoc 2019-2023 | Now working in industry |
| Feige Wang | Postdoc 2017-2019 | Hubble fellow then assistant research professor at U. Arizona |
| Frederick Davies | Postdoc 2015-2019 | Faculty at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| Anna-Christina Eilers | PhD student 2015-2019 | Joint Hubble and Pappalardo fellow at MIT, now faculty at MIT |
| Hector Hiss | PhD student 2015-2019 | Now working in industry |
| Tobias Schmidt | PhD student 2014-2019 | Postdoctoral fellow at University of Geneva |
| Michael Walther | PhD student 2013-2019 | Postdoc at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich |
| Emanuele Farina | Postdoc 2017-2018 | Staff scientist at Gemini Observatory |
| Jonathan Stern | Postdoc 2013-2017 | Humboldt Fellow, CIERA prize fellow, faculty at Tel Aviv University |
| Jose Onorbe | Postdoc 2013-2017 | Faculty at University of Seville |
| Daniele Sorini | PhD student 2013-2017 | Postdoc at Durham University |
| Gabor Worseck | Postdoc 2012-2017 | Now working in industry |
| Ilya Khrykin | PhD student 2012-2016 | Postdoc at Kavli IPMU |
| Cristina Garcia Vergara | PhD student 2013-2015 | Now working in industry |
| Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia | PhD student 2011-2015 | ESO prize fellow, faculty at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| Khee-Gan Lee | Postdoc 2011-2015 | Hubble fellow, faculty at Kavli IPMU |
| Gabriela Calistro Rivera | Masters student 2013-2014 | PhD student Leiden University, ESO prize fellow |
| Elisabeta Lusso | Postdoc 2011-2014 | Faculty at University of Florence |
| Alberto Rorai | PhD student 2011-2014 | Postdoc at Cambridge, now working in industry |
| Girish Kulkarni | Postdoc 2011-2014 | Faculty at Tata Institue of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
| Neil Crighton | Postdoc 2010-2013 | Postdoc at Swinburne University of Technology, now working in industry |
| Kate Rubin | Postdoc 2010-2013 | Humboldt Fellow, Harvard Clay Fellow, faculty at San Diego State |