Current group members

Dr. Jacob L. Bean

Group Leader
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
B.S. in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002

Dr. Andreas Seifahrt

Research Scientist
Lab manager and instrumentation projects lead

Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany), 2008
Diploma in Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany), 2004

Dr. Kevin Stevenson

Postdoc
Current project: exoplanet transit spectroscopy

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Central Florida, 2012
M.S. in Astronomy, University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2006
B.S. in Physics, Simon Fraser University (Canada), 2005

Laura Kreidberg

Graduate Student
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient
Expected graduation: 2016
Current project: Super-earth atmospheres

B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, Yale University, 2011

Megan Bedell

Graduate Student
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient
Expected graduation: 2017
Current project: CRIRES planet search

B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, Haverford College, 2012

Former group members

Molly Simon

Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2012
Expected graduation: 2013, Geophysical Sciences
Completed project: transmission models of the Earth's atmosphere for radial velocity and transit spectroscopy observations