Current Members

Ph.D. Students

• Julia Speicher (2020-present), jspeicher .at. gatech.edu
  • Working on predicting the observational properties of X-ray burst/accretion disk interactions
  • NDSEG Fellow
  • KITP Graduate Fellow (Spring 2024)

• Julie Malewicz (2021-present; co-advised with Dr. Bogdanović), jlm .at. gatech.edu
  • Working on X-ray reflection properties of binary SMBHs

• Vishal Sudhakar (2024-present), vsudhakar7 .at. gatech.edu
  • Working on developing an open-source, modular relativistic reflection model

Undergraduates

• Sena Ghobadi (2023-present)
  • Working on calculating the evolution due to dynamical fiction of supermassive black pairs on inclined orbits

• Elizabeth Apalkova (2023-present)
  • Working on spectral models of AGN disks with warm coronae

Alumni

Postdocs

• Laurens Keek (2013-2015)

• Christy Pierce (2009-2011)

Ph.D. Students

• Kunyang Li (2017-2022) [co-advised with Prof. Tamara Bogdanović]

• Raj Gohil (2014-2018)

• Aden Draper (2009-2012)

MS Students

• Astraea Hegeman (2019)

•  Rachel Grissom (2013)

Undergraduates

• Daniel Fairfax (2022-2023) [previous Physics REU Student]

• Vishal Sudhakar (2022-2023)

• Arnav Kabra (2021-2022)

• Xin Xiang (2020-2022)

• Ariel Roos (2020)

• Chaoxian Lin (2019)

• M. Avirett-Mackenzie (2016-2019)

• R. Glefke (2018)

• L. Isbill (2017-2018)

• A. Hegeman (2017)

• E. Hollingworth (2016-2017)

• R. Wolf (2014-2016)

• G. Alvarez (2014)

• J. Bollenbacher (2013)

• A. Karsai (2013)

• E. Martin (2013)

• S.A. Agrawal (2013)

• J. Indergaard (2012)

• R. Strausbaugh (2011)

• S. Northcott (2011)

• J.D. Purvis (2011)

• J. McDuffie (2010)

• M. Schumann (2010)

• B. Ford (2009)