CRESST II Post-bac Positions and Support Program

Yesenia Arroyo

Yesenia Arroyo is affiliated with the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Yesenia is a research assistant in the NASA Goddard Astrophysics science communication team, contributing to the communication efforts for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Their role involves translating complex astrophysical concepts into accessible and engaging content, helping bridge the gap between cutting-edge scientific research and public understanding.

Amethyst Barnes

Amethyst Barnes is affiliated with the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Amethyst is working with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Project Science Team, focusing on the data analysis of the Wide-Field Instrument's detectors as well as weak gravitational lensing simulations.

Ferris Bosworth

Ferris Bosworth is affiliated with the Planetary Magnetospheres Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Ferris is working with magnetic field data from the Maven satellite and looks for changes due to the IMF.

Harrison Bradley

Harrison Bradley is affiliated with the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Harrison is currently focusing on the Prototype Imaging Spectrograph for Coronagraphic Exoplanet Studies (PISCES) integral field spectrograph (IFS). This is an instrument testbed designed to developing the instrumentation necessary for exoplanet imaging and spectroscopy on the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory.

Emily Broadbent

Emily Broadbent is affiliated with the Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Emily is developing neural networks that efficiently reproduce thermal X-ray light curves in order to explore the foundations of pulsar high-energy emission.

Isabella Carlton

Isabella Carlton is affiliated with the X-ray Astroparticle Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Isabella is working to reduce and analyze multi-wavelength spectra and imaging of edge-on Active Galactic Nuclei.

Achraf Dhahbi

Ashraf Dhahbi is affiliated with the Planetary Systems Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Achraf is working with the EMAC team on finding new open source tools for exoplanet research and integrating them into our online catalog. He will also be doing exoplanet spectroscopy with Dr. Avi Mandell.

Rachel Hemmer

Rachel Hemmer is affiliated with the X-ray Astroparticle Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Rachel is performing theoretical and computational work in support of the upcoming X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM).

Jordan Forman

Jordan Forman is affiliated with the X-ray Astroparticle Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Jordan is analyzing and investigating the high-energy processes of blazars using gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), and she is also simulating blazar spectra with a model that accounts for the particle-cooling caused by Synchrotron Self-Compton emissions.

Siobhan Light

Siobhan Light is affiliated with the Planetary Systems Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Siobhan is currently working on a project to develop a machine learning model capable of automatically detecting clouds in Cassini ISS images of the moon Titan.

Thibault Lechien

Thibault Lechien is affiliated with the Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Thibault is working on the further development of a ray-tracing code that incorporates the modeling of the NICER thermal X-ray light curves taking into account multipolar magnetic field of millisecond pulsars and other fundamental neutron star parameters.

Miranda McCarthy

Miranda McCarthy is affiliated with the X-ray Astroparticle Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Miranda is working with Dr. Ryan Pfeifle studying dual AGN mergers!

Thea McKenna

Thea McKenna is affiliated with the Planetary Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Thea McKenna is creating higher resolution digital elevation models of potential landing sites on the South Pole of the Moon in support of the Artemis III mission.

Allison Payne

Allison Payne is affiliated with the Planetary Systems Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Allison is working with Geronimo Villanueva and the Planetary Spectrum Generator team characterizing planetary atmospheres that may be suitable for life. I will soon use the Global Emission Spectra (GlobES) to create realistic climate models for a selection of planets.

Havishk Tripathi

Havishk Tripathi is affiliated with the Astrochemistry Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. At NASA I am engaged in analytical chemistry research, where I contribute to Planetary Protection projects where we track and quantify organic contamination across the cleanrooms at Goddard, as well as contributing to the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Sarinah Wahl

Sarinah Wahl is affiliated with the Planetary Environments Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Sarinah is working with Dr. Jen Eigenbrode and Dr. James Lewis on various projects, ranging from contamination control to planetary analogs. These projects involve observing the resulting products and reaction efficiency of various methylating reagents on fatty and amino acids as well organics in salt analogs.

Michele Woodland

Michele Woodland is affiliated with the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Michele is working on software development for the spectroscopy mode of the coronagraph instrument of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.