Team Magrathea

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Carver Bierson, 2020–2024, co-supervised with Lindy Elkins-Tanton (next stop: astronomy faculty at Scottsdale Community College)

Graduate Students (Primary)

• Madison Borrelli, PhD 2024, Geological Sciences (next stop: postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech)

• Samuel Courville, PhD 2025, Geological Sciences (next stop: postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley)

• Kevin Trinh, PhD 2025, Geological Sciences (next stop: postdoctoral researcher at Caltech)

• Trevor Austin, PhD in progress, Geological Sciences

• Lana Tilke, PhD in progress, Astrophysics

Graduate Students (Secondary)

• Saira Hamid (lunar dynamo)

• Sarah Braunisch (argon degassing at Venus)

• Jessica Norrell (gravity waves at Venus)

• Allyson Trussell (lava channels on Venus)

• Yoav Rotman (basal magma oceans in exoplanets)

• Joe DuBois (neuromorphic lightning detection)

Undergraduate Researchers

• Claire Blaske, BS 2023, Astrophysics (next stop: PhD program at Stanford)

  NSF GRFP (2023), SESE Dean’s Medal (2023), University Outstanding Undergraduate Award for The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Natural Sciences (2023), Outstanding Research Award for Barrett, the Honors College (2023), USRA Distinguished Undergraduate Award (2022)

• Sarah Lunetto, BS 2024, Astrobiology (next stop: MS program at ASU)

• Elizabeth Higgins, BS in progress, Astrophysics

• Emma Guinan, BS in progress, Astrophysics