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Andrew Wetzel

Professor of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Davis

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Dr. Fiona McCluskey

Dr. Fiona McCluskey

Dr. Fiona McCluskey is our group’s 5th graduating PhD student. She completed her PhD dissertation: From Formation to Fossil Record: Tracing Galaxy Evolution Through Stellar Dynamics in Cosmological Simulations. Congratulations Dr. McCluskey!

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  • Samantha Benincasa awarded President’s Postdoctoral Scholarship at OSU 2021-02-17
  • Sky & Telescope article: plane of satellites 2021-02-15
  • Jenna Samuel awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021-02-01
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  • Sarah Loebman to start as assistant professor at UC Merced 2019-07-01
  • Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury Program: M31-6D survey 2019-07-01
  • Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Legacy Theory grant: low-mass galaxies and reionization 2019-07-01
  • Hellman Fellowship 2019-06-26
  • Scialog Fellowship and Heising-Simons grant 2019-06-18
  • Sierra Chapman graduates with Highest Honors 2019-06-05
  • first student-led paper from our group: radial distribution of satellite galaxies 2019-04-29
  • Frontera supercomputer allocation: 106 million core-hours 2019-03-11
  • Samantha Benincasa joins us as a postdoc 2018-10-08
  • Ananke: synthetic Gaia surveys 2018-06-28
  • Scialog Fellowship 2018-02-12
  • NASA Astrophysics Theory Program (ATP) grant: modeling the Milky Way 2017-12-20
  • James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Science program: resolved stellar populations 2017-11-13
  • Sarah Loebman joins us as a Hubble Fellow 2017-09-01
  • Aspen summer workshop: Milky Way dynamics 2017-08-22
  • real job gets real 2017-07-01
  • Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Theory grant: quenching of satellite galaxies 2017-06-26
  • Blue Waters supercomputer: 160 million core-hour allocation 2017-04-28
  • Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury Program: MW-6D survey 2016-07-01
  • assistant professor at UC Davis 2016-06-30

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  • promotion to (full) professor 2025-07-01
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