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.
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.
Kathlynn Simotas
Hydrodynamic simulations, radiative transfer, machine learning and statistics for cosmological simulations.
Lars Abbo
Evolution of and high redshift search for radio AGN.
Undergraduate Students
Andy Lin
Modeling the Lyman-alpha Forest.
Zhenyu Peng
Modeling AGN and LRD spectrum.
Former Group Members
| Name | Position Held | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Silvia Onorato | PhD student 2021–2025 | Postdoc at Gemini Observatory |
| Elia Pizzati | PhD student 2021–2025 | NHFP Einstein Fellow at Harvard University |
| Molly Wolfson | PhD student 2018–2024 | President’s Postdoctoral Scholar and CCAPP Fellow at Ohio State University |
| Linda Zhenyu Jin | Undergraduate student 2022–2024 | Researcher at LBNL/Berkeley |
| Teng Hu | PhD student 2017–2024 | Postdoc at Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille |
| Vikram Khaire | Postdoc 2017–2020, 2023–2024 | Faculty at Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati |
| Caitlin Doughty | Postdoc 2021–2024 | Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| 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 | Postdoc at University of Copenhagen |
| Riccardo Nanni | Postdoc 2019–2023 | Now working in industry |
| Feige Wang | Postdoc 2017–2019 | Hubble Fellow; Research Professor at University of Michigan |
| Frederick Davies | Postdoc 2015–2019 | Faculty at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
| Anna-Christina Eilers | PhD student 2015–2019 | Joint Hubble and Pappalardo Fellow at MIT; now faculty at LMU Munich |
| 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 University of Edinburgh |
| Gabor Worseck | Postdoc 2012–2017 | Now working in industry |
| Ilya Khrykin | PhD student 2012–2016 | Postdoc at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile |
| 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 | Master’s student 2013–2014 | PhD (Leiden University); ESO Prize Fellow; Scientific Project Manager at German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| 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 Institute 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 University |