Halekas Group - University of Iowa
Current Members
Research Scientists
Postdocs
- Han-Wen Shen
- Rhyan Sawyer
Graduate Students
- Raaman Nair
- Jacob Fruchtman (recipient of Pfeiffer/Maltby Scholarship)
- Aidan Moore
- Yuanzheng Wen (personal
website)
Undergraduate Students
Former Members
Research Scientists
- Zachary Girazian - left field
- Suranga Ruhunusiri - moved to University of Colorado
- Yuki Harada (MARSIS group) - moved to faculty job at Kyoto University
Engineers
- Rafael Macias - moved to job with Honeybee Robotics
Postdocs
- Dev Joshi - moved to NASA
- Xin Cao - moved to Colorado
- Feng Chu - moved to LANL
- Hadi Madanian - moved to SwRI
- Jeffrey Walker - moved to Netherlands
- Charles Lue - moved (back) to IRF
Graduate Students
- Sarah Henderson (recipient of Iowa Space Grant Fellowship, Pierazzo
travel award, Pfeiffer Family Scholarship) - graduated with Ph.D. - moved
to postdoc
position at Montana State
- Gian Andreone (recipient of Pfieffer Family Scholarship) - graduated
with Ph.D. - moved
to postdoc position at Princeton
- Dan McGinnis - graduated with Ph.D. - moved to postdoc position at U.
Iowa with Prof.
Howes
- Stephanie Howard (recipient of Space Grant NASA Fellowship (2x), AGU
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, and Pfeiffer Family Scholarship)
- graduated with Ph.D. - moved to postdoc position at NASA GSFC
- Sarah Henderson
(recipient of Space Grant NASA Fellowship)
- graduated with Masters - moved to data analysis position at SSAI
- Staci Tiedeken - graduated with Masters - moved to science outreach
position at GSFC
Research Interns
- Nicholas Jones - went to graduate school at UNH
Undergraduate Students
- Mel Peters (2021-2023)
- Siddharth Nandanwar (2020)
- Lexi Leali (2020-2021), ISGC Hands-On Award
- Michael Kistler (2018-2020, Charles A. Wert Award)
- John Momberg (2019)
- Brandon Garcia (2018-2019)
- Jacob Cowsky (2018-2019)
- Dani Lipman (2017-2019, Space Grant Scholar)
- Mason Reed (Summer 2017, Van Allen Award)
- Logan Kelly Reed (2016-2018)
- Caleb Raman (2016-2017, Charles A. Wert Award)
- Joshua Larson (Fall 2016)
- Tianshi Xie (Summer/Fall 2016)
- Kallin Khan (Summer 2016, ICRU Fellow)
- Frank Schmitz (Spring 2016)
- Jacob Isbell (Summer 2015, Charles A. Wert Award)
- Devin Parker (Summer 2015)