Victor Debattista Ph.D. 1998 Professor of Astrophysics University of Central Lancashire	Ross Fadely Ph.D. 2010 Chief of Data Science Wall Street Journal	Neelima Sehgal Ph.D. 2008 Associate Professor Stony Brook University	Chelsea Sharon Ph.D. 2013 Assistant Professor Yale-NUS College

A complete listing of all of our group's recent graduate students is available here. A listing of our current graduate students is available at the bottom of this web page. Honors won by our graduate students while at Rutgers include the following:

Dissertation Award, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, & Engineering
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools

• 1995 Karl Gebhardt

American Fellowship
American Association of University Women

• 2012 Chelsea Sharon

Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowship
ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing

• 2016 Anna Wright

Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• 2018 Elaad Applebaum

Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award
American Astronomical Society

• 2011 Curtis McCully
• 2014 Brandon Patel (honorable mention)
• 2019 Prasiddha Arunachalam
• 2019 Adam Broussard
• 2021 Charlotte Olsen
• 2024 Irene Moskowitz (honorable mention)

University & Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship
Rutgers University

• 2007 Neelima Sehgal
• 2019 Humna Awan

Graduate School Award for Excellence in Research
Rutgers University

• 2003 Cara Rakowski
• 2013 Robert Lindner

Fellowship for Excellence in Computation and Data Science
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute

• 2018 Humna Awan

Richard J. Plano Dissertation Prize
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• 2004 Cara Rakowski
• 2006 Juntai Shen
• 2020 Humna Awan
• 2021 L.Y. Aaron Yung

Noemie Koller Endowed Scholarship
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• 2015 Anna Wright
• 2017 Catie Raney
• 2022 Charlotte Olsen

Peter Lindenfeld Fellowship
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• 2021 Sabrina Appel

Claud Lovelace Endowed Fellowship in Experimental Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• 2013 John Wu
• 2019 Peter Doze
• 2021 Irene Moskowitz
• 2022 Lana Eid

Robert A. Schommer Prize (for outstanding research in astrophysics)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• 2015 Carl Mitchell — The RINGS Survey. I. Hα and HI Velocity Maps of Galaxy NGC 2280
• 2016 Ryan Brennan — Quenching and morphological transformation in semi-analytic models and CANDELS
• 2017 Kartheik Iyer — Reconstruction of Galaxy Star Formation Histories through SED Fitting: The Dense Basis Approach
• 2018 John Wu — Herschel and ALMA Observations of Massive SZE-Selected Clusters
• 2019 Anna Wright — Reignition of Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
• 2020 Elaad Applebaum — A stochastically sampled IMF alters the stellar content of simulated dwarf galaxies
• 2021 Ray Sharma — Black Hole Growth and Feedback in Isolated ROMULUS25 Dwarf Galaxies
• 2022 Charlotte Olsen — Star Formation Histories from Spectral Energy Distributions and Color-magnitude Diagrams Agree: Evidence for Synchronized Star Formation in Local Volume Dwarf Galaxies over the Past 3 Gyr
• 2023 Lindsey Kwok — Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and TARDIS Models of the Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova 2014ad
• 2024 Conor Larison — Environmental Dependence of Type Ia Supernovae in Low-redshift Galaxy Clusters

Richard J. Plano Oustanding Teaching Assistant Award
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• 2003 Jessica Warren
• 2005 Ross Fadely
• 2005 Naseem Rangwala
• 2008 Ross Fadely
• 2010 Curtis McCully
• 2010 Chelsea Sharon
• 2013 Ryan Brennan
• 2014 Sheehan Ahmed
• 2014 Jesse Rivera
• 2014 Jonathan Sloane
• 2015 Sean Brennan
• 2015 Carl Mitchell
• 2021 Jack Hay
• 2021 Dilys Ruan
• 2022 Lita de la Cruz
• 2022 Nicole Firestone
• 2023 Clare Burhenne
• 2023 Amir Kazemi-Moridani
• 2023 Derek Zapata

T. Daniel Brennan Travel Scholarship
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• 2022 Lana Eid

Last edited April 22, 2024.