The Group
Current Members
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Bradford Benson (PI)
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Karia Dibert (PhD Student)
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Kyra Fichman (PhD Student)
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Alec Hryciuk (PhD Student)
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Emily Martsen (PhD Student)
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Joshua Sobrin
PhD Student 2022
Lederman Fellow (Fermilab)
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Matt Young (Postdoc)
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Jessica Zebrowski
KICP and Einstein Fellow (UC)
Former Members
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Sasha Rahlin
Postdoc 2016-2021
Research Professor (UChicago)
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Donna KubikÂ
Physicist (Fermilab)
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Zhaodi Pan
PhD Student 2020
Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow (ANL)
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Eleanor Rath
UC Senior Thesis 2018-19
PhD Student at MIT
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Jasmine Kalia
UC Undergrad 2018-19
PhD Student at MIT
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Adam Anderson
Postdoc 2014-2018
Wilson Fellow (Fermilab)
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Chema Hernandez
SIST Summer Student 2018
Masters (UChicago), PhD Student Brown
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Taryn Imamura
SIST Summer Student 2018
PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon
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Elyssa Brooks
SULI Summer Student 2017
PhD Student at U. Chicago
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Vasish Baungally
UC Senior Thesis 2017
Software Eng. SF Bay Area
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Alex Droster
UC Senior Thesis 2016
PhD Student at UC-Berkeley
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Lauren Saunders
UC Senior Thesis 2016
PhD (Yale), Postdoc (Fermilab).
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Ningfeng Zhu
UC Senior Thesis 2016
PhD (UPenn), Google
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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!