Advising

As a faculty member at New Mexico State University, I was fortunate to have worked with a number of students.

Alexander Stone-Martinez, PhD, 2025, “Pushing the Boundaries of Stellar Age & Distance Estimation with Advanced Machine Learning Techniques”
Julie Imig, PhD, 2023, “A Galactic Self-Portrait: Chemical Cartography, Density Structure, and Integrated Properties of the Milky Way Disk”, now at Space Telescope Science Institute
Drew Chojnowski, PhD, 2020, “H-Band Spectroscopy of Exotic Massive Stars”
Sten Hasselquist, PhD, 2018, “Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Using APOGEE”, now at Space Telescope Science Institute
Diane Feuillet, PhD, 2016, “Ages and Abundances of Local Galactic Stellar Populations”, now at Uppsala University
Teresa Ross, PhD, 2015 “Exploring stellar metallicities in dwarf galaxies and their implications”
Michael Hayden, PhD, 2015. “Chemical cartography of the Milky Way disk with the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey”, now at University of Oklahoma
Bhasker Moorthy, PhD, 2006, “Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure, Kinematics, and Dynamics”, now at Harper College
Salman Hameed PhD 2001 (coadvise), now at Hampshire College
Chris Garasi, PhD 2001 (coadvise)
Matthew Carlson, PhD, 1999, “Young globular clusters in interacting galaxies”, now at SIG

Dan Oravetz, MS, 2015 “Searching for metallicity spread in five galactic star clusters “, now at Apache Point Observatory
MJ Clark, MS, 2012
Roberto Avila MS 2008, now at Space Telescope Science Institute
Pey-Lian Lim, MS, 2006, “High-resolution spectroscopy of a volume-limited Hipparcos sample within 100 parsec”, now at Space Telescope Science Institute
Sarah Bates, MS, 2005, “Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry for globular clusters in M31 and five newly discovered globular clusters “
Hector Noriega, MS, 2004, now at UTEP
Nathaniel Paust, MS, 2000, “The star formation history of the local Milky Way”, now at Whitman College
Marla Geha, MS, 1998, now at Yale University