Former Undergraduate and Visiting Students

Sabine Zeitz (Technical University Munich): Sabine Zeitz is a graduate student at the Technical University Munich. In the astrochemistry group she works on laboratory ice experiments. (2019-2020)

Jamie Weisenberg (Harvard University) did her junior and senior theses in the astrochemistry group under the supervision of Andrew Burkhardt and Karin Öberg. Her senior thesis was on the composition of icy grain mantles in analogs to the protosun and...

Tajana Schneiderman (MIT): Tajana Schneiderman is a graduate student at MIT in EAPS. In the astrochemistry group she works distributions of volatiles in protoplanetary disks and their relationship with Solar System abundances. (2021 - 2022)

Cara Presciotta (Northeastern University): Cara Pesciotta is an undergraduate at Northeastern University. In the astrochemistry group she studies the entrapment of CO in thick H2O and CO2 ices by analyzing infrared and mass spectrometry data during...

McKenzie Lilygren (Harvard University): McKenzie Lilygren is an undergraduate at Harvard. In the astrochemistry group she is working on measuring photodissociation efficiencies of molecules in analogs to cometary ices, using laboratory experiments. (2021)...

Sage Crystian (Harvard University): Sage Crystian is an undergraduate at Harvard. In the astrochemistry group he is using ALMA CO data to estimate the vertical structure of protoplanetary disks. (2021-2022)

Alessandra Canta (Harvard University): Alessandra Canta is an undergraduate at Harvard. In the astrochemistry group she laboratory experiments simulating the thermal evolution of protostellar icy grain mantles. (2021)

Ananya Bansal (Harvard University): Ananya Bansal was an undergraduate at Harvard. In the astrochemistry group she is exploring the sulfur chemistry in a sample of solar-like protostars using microwave observations.

Sarai Rankin (Morgan State University): Sarai Rankin was an undergraduate at Morgan State University. In the astrochemistry group she studied the frequency of disks around Herbig Ae stars. (2022)

Alex DelFranco (Amherst College): Alex DelFranco was an undergraduate at Amhest College. In the astrochemistry group he investigated complex organic molecules (which are theorized to be precursors to extraterrestrial life). (2022)