The Group

Current Members

Bradford Benson (PI)

Karia Dibert (PhD Student)

Kyra Fichman (PhD Student)

Alec Hryciuk (PhD Student)

Emily Martsen (PhD Student)

Joshua Sobrin

PhD Student 2022

Lederman Fellow (Fermilab)

Matt Young (Postdoc)

Jessica Zebrowski

KICP and Einstein Fellow (UC)

Former Members

Sasha Rahlin

Postdoc 2016-2021

Research Professor (UChicago)

Donna Kubik 

Physicist (Fermilab)

Zhaodi Pan

PhD Student 2020

Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow (ANL)

Eleanor Rath

UC Senior Thesis 2018-19

PhD Student at MIT

Jasmine Kalia

UC Undergrad 2018-19

PhD Student at MIT

Adam Anderson

Postdoc 2014-2018

Wilson Fellow (Fermilab)

Chema Hernandez

SIST Summer Student 2018

Masters (UChicago), PhD Student Brown

Taryn Imamura

SIST Summer Student 2018

PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon

Elyssa Brooks

SULI Summer Student 2017

PhD Student at U. Chicago

Vasish Baungally

UC Senior Thesis 2017

Software Eng. SF Bay Area

Alex Droster

UC Senior Thesis 2016

PhD Student at UC-Berkeley

Lauren Saunders

UC Senior Thesis 2016

PhD (Yale), Postdoc (Fermilab).

Ningfeng Zhu

UC Senior Thesis 2016

PhD (UPenn), Google

Milo Korman

UC Senior Thesis 2015

PhD (Case Western), HRL Laboratories

Contact Us!

We are always looking for new group members (undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs)! Contact Brad (bbenson_at_astro.uchicago.edu) if you're interested in working with us!