People
Students & collaborators
I’ve had the pleasure of working with some wonderful students. Several built undergraduate theses on our projects together, and they’ve each brought a great deal of effort and creativity. I’m very proud of what we’ve done.
Are you an MIT student interested in a project like these? Please get in touch.
Current students
Students whose research I supervise in part or in full.
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Joheen Chakraborty
PhD student, MIT
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Jackie Lodman
PhD student, Harvard University
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Guy Daniel Hadas
PhD student, Hebrew University
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Rotem Ovadia
PhD student, Hebrew University
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Omer Katz
PhD student, Tel Aviv University
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Christina Schwemmbauer
PhD student, DESY
Undergraduate theses
Senior theses I supervised at UC Santa Cruz, and where each student went next.
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Samuel D. English 2020–2022
The Hidden Friend’s Wake: Dark Matter and a Binary at the Galactic Center
Honors in the major
→ PhD in Physics, University of New Mexico
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Olivia G. Ross 2018–2021
Searching for primordial black holes
Honors in the major; Steck Family Award for the best senior thesis at UC Santa Cruz, 2020–21
→ PhD in Astronomy, Cornell University
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Paul Andreini 2016–2019
Time-evolution of the primordial black hole mass function
Honors in the major
→ PhD in Physics, University of Oregon
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Thomas Schwemberger 2018
Constraints on Planck mass relics from primordial black hole evaporation with a generic initial mass function
Honors in the major
→ PhD in Physics, University of Oregon
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Anikeya Aditya 2016–2018
Inferring the mass function of primordial black holes from gravitational wave observations
Honors in the major
→ PhD in Materials Science, University of Southern California
Former student collaborators
Graduate and undergraduate students I’ve worked with, and where they went next.
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Badal Bhalla 2022–2026
PhD, University of Oklahoma
→ Postdoctoral Associate, University of Utah
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Bethany Suter 2023–2026
PhD, UC Berkeley
→ Postdoctoral Associate, Fermilab
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Marcell Howard 2024–2026
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
→ Postdoctoral Associate, Brown University
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Cara Giovanetti 2024–2025
PhD, NYU
→ Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
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Wenzer Qin 2023–2024
PhD, MIT
→ Simons Junior Fellow, NYU
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Sarah R. Geller 2023–2024
PhD, MIT
→ NSF MPS Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz / UC Berkeley
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Tung X. Tran 2023–2024
BS, MIT
→ PhD in Physics, Stanford University
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Nolan Smyth 2021–2024
PhD, UC Santa Cruz
→ Postdoctoral Fellow, Mila / Université de Montréal
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Ava Webber 2020–2022
BS, UC Santa Cruz
→ PhD in Astronomy, Clemson University
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Mason Hargrave 2018–2019
BS, UC Santa Cruz
→ PhD in Computational Biology, Rockefeller University
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Jackson Yant 2016–2018,
BS, UC Santa Cruz
→ PhD in Physics, Dartmouth College
Other collaborators
At MIT I work most closely with the groups of Tracy Slatyer and David Kaiser within the Center for Theoretical Physics. I also work with Laura Baudis at the University of Zürich, Sinéad Griffin at LBNL, Yonit Hochberg and Eric Kuflik at Hebrew University, Noah Kurinsky at SLAC, Kuver Sinha at the University of Oklahoma, Yotam Soreq at the Technion, and Tomer Volansky at Tel Aviv University, among others.
