Current:
Katrina Bynum (SURF Fellow):
A CubeSat Feasibility Study for Monitoring Episodic Stellar Activity
Aly Nida:
Computational Modeling of Irradiated Exoplanet Atmospheres
Stanley McAfee: A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Kevin Gainey: A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
I and collaborators carry out observational monitoring studies of young stars, and combine the resulting data with computational simulations, to better understand how short-term (like on the order of days or weeks) stellar activity can impact orbiting planets, including factors important for habitability.
Borrowing many strategies from astronomical imaging, I lead the development of novel medical imaging instrumentation, such as the one shown in the left frame, to achieve low-cost, single snapshot 3D imaging, for helping prevent terminal cancers in underserved regions of the world.
I work as a part of several observational surveys that use infrared adaptive optics imaging, on telescopes such as the Subaru 8-meter in Hawaii and VLT 8-meter in Chile, to search nearby stars for orbiting extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks
I and collaborators use data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to image extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks.
Blake Mino
(NASA Palmetto Fellow, NASA USRF Fellow, Sigma Xi GIAR Recipient):
Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Dereck Morgado: Investigating the Impact of
Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Will Ceva (NASA Palmetto Fellow):
Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Lucy Williamson (SURF Fellow): Investigating the
Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
David Melnick (NASA USRF Fellow, SURF Fellow, MAYS Fellow):
A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses; Exoplanet Imaging With the Hubble Space Telescope
Elyana Crowder (SURF Fellow, MAYS Fellow): Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Rafael Hurtado (Sigma Xi GIAR Recipient): Exoplanet Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
Maxwell Rabe (SURF Fellow): A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Lennart Langouche: A Fiber-Based Liquid Lens Endoscope
Jerson Huerfano: Exoplanet Imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope
Vianny Estrada: Spectroscopic Monitoring of Young Stars with Circumstellar Disks, to Investigate the Impact of Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Wendell Roberson: Exoplanet Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
Adam Fletcher: Exoplanet Imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope
Ariane McKiernan (HHMI Fellow): A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Hannah Wilson (SURF Fellow, AYRA Recipient): A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Clay Gardner: Imaging Exoplanets and Disks
with the Hubble Space Telescope
Jameson Sanders (HHMI Fellow): Imaging Exoplanets and Disks
with the Hubble Space Telescope
Laura Stevens (NASA
USRF Fellow): Exoplanet
Studies with
the
Subaru SEEDS Survey
Benjamin Wilson (Boeing Scholar, MAYS Fellow): Imaging Exoplanets and Disks with the
Hubble Space Telescope
Nathan Gunzenhauser: Exoplanet
Studies with
the
Subaru SEEDS Survey
Zachary
Griggs: Imaging
Exoplanets and Disks with the Hubble Space Telescope
Kellen
Lawson (MAYS Fellow, SURF Fellow): Exoplanet
Studies with the
Subaru SEEDS Survey
David McDaniel: A
Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Brittany Yeager: Imaging Exoplanets and Disks
with the Hubble Space Telescope
Kara Perrino: The
Hubble Exoplanet Classroom
Kevin Gainey (Boeing Scholar): Brown
Dwarfs Around Radial Velocity Planet System
Thea Kozakis
(MAYS Fellow, SURF Fellow):
Searching for Exoplanets
and Disks with Hubble Space Telescope Imaging
David Ruwadi: The
Hubble Exoplanet Classroom
J. Alex Greene: Brown
Dwarfs Around Radial Velocity Planet Systems
Jesica Trucks:
Monte
Carlo Orbital Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
Andrei
Zorilescu: Lucky Imaging
with the College of Charleston Observatory
Palmer
Wong:
Exoplanet Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
John
Bent:
Brown
Dwarfs Around
Radial Velocity Planet Systems
Carolin Schnupp: Brown
Dwarfs Around Radial Velocity Planet Systems
Michael
Blaschak: An
Adaptive Optics Survey of Sub-stellar Companions to TPF Candidate
Targets
Gregorio Villar: An
Adaptive Optics Survey of Sub-stellar Companions to TPF Candidate
Targets
Kyle Hiner: A
Distance-Limited Imaging Survey of Sub-Stellar Companions to Solar
Neighborhood Stars
Lilit Abramyan: Palomar
Hale Telescope Adaptive Optics Instrumentation
Jeffrey
Smith (JPlus Scholar): A
Monte Carlo Population Study of Wide Separation Brown Dwarf Companions
to Main Sequence Stars
Funding: my 2020 research is funded by NASA SC Space Grant, South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE), South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), American Astronomical Society (AAS), and Pensievision C-Corp.