Ph.D. / Masters Recipients

Mathew Galloway
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oslo

Thesis: Currently Embargoed

Susan Redmond
PH.D Student, Princeton University

Masters Thesis: Thermal Design and Control for Stratospheric Balloon-borne Telescopes

Javier Romualdez
NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Princeton University Department of Physics

Thesis:  Design, Implementation, and Operational Methodologies for Sub-Arcsecond Attitude Determination, Control, and Stabilization of the Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT)

Ivan Padilla
Assistant Research Scientist

Johns Hopkins University department of Physics and Astronomy

Thesis: Probing cosmic inflation with the Spider experiment (Currently embargoed)

Steven Li
Aerospace Engineer

Graduate Student, Princeton University

 Masters Thesis: The Frequency and Modal System Identification of the Balloon-borne Imaging Testbed

Natalie Gandilo 
Assistant Research Scientist 
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 

 Thesis: Probing Interstellar Grain Alignment with Balloon-borne Submillimeter Observations

Jamil Shariff
Systems Engineering Department,
MDA Corporation

Thesis:  Polarimetry from the Stratosphere with SPIDER and BLASTPol

Steve Benton
Associate  Research Scholar 
Princeton University Physics Department

 Thesis: Mapping Submillimetre Polarization with BLASTPol

Laura Fissel
Assistant Professor
Queen's University

Thesis: Probing the Role Played by Magnetic Fields in Star Formation with BLASTPol 

Juan Soler 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Service d'Astrophysique
CEA/Saclay. France.

 Thesis: In Search of an Imprint of Magnetization in the Balloon-borne Observations of the Polarized Dust Emission from Molecular Clouds

Marzieh Farhang

 Thesis: High Precision Cosmology with CMB Data

Marco Viero 
KIPAC Fellow
KIPAC/Stanford 

Thesis: Correlations in the Cosmic Far-infrared Background at 250, 350, and 500 μm Reveal Clustering of Star-forming Galaxies 

Don Wiebe 
Research Faculty
University of British Columbia

Thesis: BLAST: A Balloon-borne, Large-Aperture, Submillimetre Telescope

Enzo Pascale
Faculty
la Sapienza (Rome)

 Thesis: The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-mm Telescope: BLAST

Sasa Nedeljkovic
Entrepreneur/Programmer

 Thesis: TREX: A small antenna RF spectrometer

Carrie MacTavish 
Teacher of Physics
Francis Holland School

Thesis: CMB angular power spectra and cosmological implications from the 2003 LDB flight of the BOOMERANG telescope