Bob Aloisi has earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from UW-Madison, an MS in Paper Science from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology in Appleton, WI, an MS in Engineering Management from UW-Madison, a …
Astronomy
Thomas Beatty
Professor Thomas Beatty grew up sailing off the coast of New England. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a Master’s in physics from MIT, and a PhD in astronomy from Ohio State University. …
Simon Gilroy
Dr. Simon Gilroy is a professor in the Botany Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is on how plants sense and respond to their environment. He works extensively with NASA on understanding how …
James Lattis
Jim Lattis holds a Ph.D. in History of Science from UW–Madison and is the author of many publications in that field. He helped create UW Space Place, the outreach and public education center of the …
Alexandre Lazarian
I started my research in the theoretical physics group led by Professor Vitaly Ginzburg. Soon after my Diploma work, I got a Soros Fellowship to spend one year at Oxford University. Later, I got Isaac …
Sanjay Limaye
Sanjay Limaye is a Distinguished Scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since obtaining his Ph.D. with Prof. Verner Suomi in 1977, he has conducted research on atmospheres of Venus, Earth, …
Rachel McClure
Rachel Lee McClure is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow pursuing her PhD in the UW – Madison Astronomy Department. Her research is an exploration of the formation and evolution of bars in disk …
Andrew Nine
Andrew Nine is a fifth-year graduate student at UW-Madison. He studies interacting binary stars and the products of those interactions, using chemical fingerprints and computer models to reconstruct the histories of these fascinating systems.
Theodore Peña
Theodore Pena is a second-year graduate student researching supermassive black holes with Professor Kate Grier. Born in South Florida, he studied astrophysics at Tufts University before joining the astronomy department at UW–Madison. Most of his …
Jonathan Rebelsky
Jonathan Rebelsky is an Analytical Chemistry PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Jonathan earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Grinnell College in Music and Chemistry and works in the Widicus Weaver lab studying …
Estephani TorresVillanueva
My name is Estephani and I’m a second-year astronomy graduate student at UW-Madison. My interests broadly encompass the planet formation process along with the evolution of chemical abundances within planet forming regions much like our …
Justin Vandenbroucke
Dr. Vandenbroucke uses innovative instruments around the world to detect high energy particles from the cosmos. Understanding the smallest particles in the universe is necessary to understand the largest objects in the universe, and vice …
Susanna Widicus Weaver
Susanna Widicus Weaver, Vozza Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin, is an expert in prebiotic astrochemistry. Her research, combining laboratory spectroscopy, observational astronomy, and chemical modeling, is aimed at understanding the …
Eric Wilcots
Professor Wilcots received his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Washington and followed that with a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, NM. He joined the faculty at UW in …