#  Vedant Chandra and Collin Cherubim win 2026 NASA Hubble postdoc fellowships 

 





March 26, 2026

 

 

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   ![Vedant Chandra headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/2026-03/headshot_2026.jpg?itok=9wJhy1Iu) 

 

Congratulations to Astronomy grad student [Vedant Chandra](https://vedantchandra.com/) and EPS grad student Collin Cherubim for winning [2026 NASA Hubble postdoc fellowship](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-awards-astrophysics-postdoctoral-fellowships-for-2026/)s!

 Vedant matriculated at Harvard in 2021; his advisor is Charlie Conroy. He will be defending his thesis at Harvard on May 1st at 10:30 AM in Phillips.

Vedant will take the postdoc at MIT, researching “Dark Matter at the Threshold of Galaxy Formation."

   ![Collin Cherubim headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/2026-03/Collin%20Cherubim.jpg?itok=G48QXWVg) 

 

Collin Cherubim also matriculated at Harvard in 2021; his advisor is David Charbonneau.

Collin will take the postdoc at University of Chicago, researching “Mass Fractionation in the Escaping Atmospheres of Small Planets, and the Hunt for Helium and Oxygen Worlds”



 

 

 



 

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