# People Demo [### Abigail White ](/people/abby-white)Graduate Student Research interests: Astronomical instrumentation (optical, near-IR) ![Abigail White headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/awhite_headshot_0.jpg?itok=CkCtsFdh) [### Adam Distler ](/people/adam-distler) Graduate Student Research Interests: Exoplanet Detection and Characterization, Dynamics ![Adam Distler headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Distler.jpg?itok=xZU4hRCI) [### Alan Hsu ](/people/alan-hsu) Graduate Student Research Interests: Solar Physics ![Alan Hsu headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/alanhsu_portrait_2.jpg?itok=pEwhpx9J) [### Alexander Johnson ](/people/alexander-johnson) Graduate Student, Physics Research Interests: cosmology, computational physics, HEP ![Alexander Johnson headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/johnson2022_alexander_3.jpg?itok=9Rjude6F) [### Alexandra McKinnon ](/people/alexandra-mckinnon) Graduate Student, Chemistry Research interests: Astrochemistry ![Alexandra McKinnon headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/mckinnonalexandra.jpg?itok=oxkjHulr) [### Allyson Bieryla ](/people/allyson-bieryla) Manager of the Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope Assistant DUS in Astronomy ![Allyson Bieryla headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Allyson-Bieryla-bio-0124.jpg?itok=SSgxaWiN) [### Alyssa A Goodman ](/people/goodman-alyssa) Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution Research Interests: Goodman's work spans astrophysics, science education, data science, data visualization, and prediction. Her astrophysical research is aimed at understanding how interstellar gas arranges itself into new stars and on new techniques for... ![Alyssa Goodman](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/alyssa.jpg?itok=F0AZVceZ) [### Ana Sofia Uzsoy ](/people/ana-sofia-uzsoy) [ana\_sofia.uzsoy@cfa.harvard.edu](mailto:ana_sofia.uzsoy@cfa.harvard.edu)Graduate Student Research Interests: astrostatistics, machine learning ![Ana Sofia](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/jozqv1shbvyxozztrhu7jbuy1112dskivo517h1dikq6.png?itok=E8rUxaqh) [### Andrew Szentgyorgyi ](/people/andrew-szentgyorgyi) SAO Astrophysicist Lecturer in Astronomy Szentgyorgyi has worked in a number of astrophysical areas including neutrino astronomy, very high energy gamma astronomy and X-ray astronomy. For the last two decades he has focused on optical high dispersion stellar spectroscopy with a focus on... ![untitled-24_mod_2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/untitled-24_mod_2.jpg?itok=CPjKLSxN) [### Andrew Vanderburg ](/people/andrew-vanderburg) Associate Professor of Astronomy Director of Undergraduate Studies My research focuses on studying exoplanets, or planets which orbit stars other than the Sun. I am interested in developing cutting-edge techniques and methods to discover new planets outside of our solar system, and studying the planets we find to learn... ![Andrew Vanderburg headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Andrew%20Vanderburg%20headshot.jpg?itok=eOqFc8QR) [### Anna Fehr ](/people/anna-fehr)Graduate Student NSF GRFP Research Interests: Planet formation and Circumstellar disks ![Anna Fehr Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/anna2.jpg?itok=WGxlcH62) [### Anna Tartaglia ](/people/anna-tartaglia) Graduate Student ![Anna Tartaglia headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/img_6921_2.jpg?itok=GuujCnLl) [### Anya Phillips ](/people/anya-phillips)Graduate Student I use N-body simulations to study the detailed dynamics of tidally-disrupted globular clusters (stellar streams). ![Anya Phillips headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/aphillips_website.png?itok=eYLkTGg-) [### Ashley Villar ](/people/ashley-villar)Assistant Professor of Astronomy Research Interests: Theoretical and observational studies of extragalactic transients, including core-collapse supernovae and kilonovae. Development of statistical and deep learning methodologies for wide-field surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin... ![Ashley Villar headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/ashley_villar_headshot.jpg?itok=eC4ivzis) [### Avi Loeb ](/people/avi-loeb) Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in... ![Avi Loeb headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/avil.jpg?itok=GRabMPdM) [### Bao ("Tintin") Nguyen ](/people/bao-tintin-nguyen) Graduate Student Tintin is broadly interested in astrophysical black holes of all sizes and scales over cosmic time, across the electromagnetic and gravitational wave spectra. He is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope and the Black Hole Explorer collaboration. He... ![Bao (Tintin) Nguyen headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/tintin_nguyens_head_shot.jpg?itok=-TVVq83k) [### Catherine Petretti ](/people/catherine-petretti) Graduate Student Research interests: Cosmic inflation, early universe cosmology, theory ![Catherine](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/ifsvieu9h1kc1oidrjmararbn6mgi7cwrr3fsn8pop46.png?itok=dvdTgJo7) [### Catherine Zucker ](/people/catherine-zucker) SAO Astrophysicist Lecturer in Astronomy Research Interests: Structure and dynamics of the Milky Way, the interstellar medium, star formation, and young stellar populations. I leverage new and upcoming photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic surveys to construct higher-dimensional models of... ![Catherine Zucker headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Catherine-Zucker-bio.jpg?itok=dCfPsUrD) [### Charles R. Alcock ](/people/charles-r-alcock) Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics Research Interests: The determination of the composition of cosmic dark matter, innovative surveys of the outer solar system, massive compact halo objects, comets and asteroids. Professor Alcock was educated at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and... ![alcock.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/astronomy/files/alcock.jpg?itok=KMKMqYSv) [### Charlie Conroy ](/people/charlie-conroy) Professor of Astronomy Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, connection between galaxies and dark matter halos, stellar population modeling, stellar evolution. ![Charlie Conroy headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6286/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/conroy%20%281%29.jpg?itok=y-_LT7Lv)