Former Graduate Students

Trish Lauck, M.Sc. (University of Virginia) Trish Lauck did her master thesis on diffusion in astrophysically relevant ices at University of Virginia 2012-2014.

Dr. Ana-Maria Piso (Ph.D 2016) was a graduate student in the Öberg group. For her Ph.D. thesis Ana-Maria Piso explored the theory of planet formation in the context of disk physics and chemistry. She is now a Computer Project Manager at GMV in Romania.

Dr. Dawn Graninger (Ph.D 2017) was a Harvard graduate student in the Öberg group. Dawn Graninger's research in the astrochemistry group combined astrochemical modeling with laboratory experiments and millimeter observations to constrain the chemistry of...

Dr. Ryan Loomis (Ph.D. 2018) was a Harvard graduate student in the Öberg group. Ryan Loomis’s research focused on the complex chemistry present during star and planet formation, and on how molecular emission in protoplanetary disks can be used to probe...

Dr. Charles Law (Ph.D. 2023) was a Harvard graduate student in the Öberg group. Charles Law was an NSF Fellow and his senior thesis was aimed at characterizing the carbon chain chemistry in an unbiased sample of Solar-type protostars and he explored the...

Dr. Ilsa Cooke (Ph.D 2018) was a University of Virginia graduate student who did much of her thesis in the Öberg group, while formally advised by Eric Herbst. Dr. Ilsa Cooke studied the dynamics, chemistry and spectroscopy of interstellar ice analogs...

Dr. Jennifer Bergner (Ph.D. 2019) was a NSF fellow in the Öberg group whose research focused on the physics and chemistry of interstellar ice analogs. She was awarded a Hubble Sagan post doctoral fellowship at University of Chicago, and moved there in the...

Dr. Jane Huang (Ph.D. 2020) was an NSF/Peirce fellow in the Andrews and Öberg groups. Jane used high angular resolution ALMA observations to study the chemical and dynamical evolution of protoplanetary disks and to search for indirect signatures of planet...

Dr. Ellen Price (Ph.D 2021) was an NSF/Peirce fellow graduate student in the Öberg group, where she explored interactions between chemistry and dynamics in protoplanetary disks. Ellen won the 2021 Eric. R. Keto Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics and will...

Dr. Jamila Pegues (Ph.D 2021) was an NSF fellow graduate student in the Öberg group. Jamila’s Ph.D. thesis explored Protoplanetary Disk Chemistry across the Stellar Spectrum. She will be a Space Telescope Science Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Baltimore...