Capacity development

He Wang

Project Scientist II at UCAR

Joseph Skitka

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ritabrata Thakur

Postdoctoral Fellow

Arin Nelson

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Arin received his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Colorado.  Arin joined our group in 2017.

Joseph Ansong

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Joseph received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Alberta.  Joseph was a postdoc and then research scientist in our group from 2011-2017.  He is now a Lecturer (equivalent of assistant professor) at the University of Ghana.

Amanda O'Rourke

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Amanda received her PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University.  Amanda was in our group from 2014-2017.  She is now a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Patrick Timko

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Patrick received his PhD in Physical Oceanography from Memorial University of Newfoundland.  Patrick was a postdoc in our group from 2008-2012.  He is now a Support Scientist at Environment Canada.

David Trossman

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

David was in our group from 2011-2013, after receiving his PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Washington.  David is now a research associate at The University of Texas at Austin.

Malte Müller

Former Postdoctoral Scientist

Malte received his PhD in Oceanography from the University of Hamburg.  He worked with us from 2012-2013 as a postdoctoral contractor.  Malte is now a Research Scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Insitute.

Avik Mondal

Graduate Student

Kristin Barton

Graduate Student

Lisa Nguyen

Graduate Student

Conrad Luecke

Former Graduate Student

After receiving a BS in Physics from Oberlin College, Conrad joined our group in 2012.  He is now a postdoc at the Stennis Space Center branch of Naval Research Laboratory.

Paige Martin

Former Graduate Student

Paige received her BS in Physics from Harvard University.  She has been a PhD student in our group since 2013 and plans to defend her Physics dissertation during the 2018-2019 academic year.

Molly Range

Former Graduate Student

Molly worked in our group from 2016-2017 while completing her Earth and Environmental Sciences BS degree.  She is now working with us as part of her 5th year MS program degree.  She was partially supervised by postdoc Joseph Ansong.

Ben Alterman

Former Graduate Student

Ben received his BS in Physics from Macalester College.  He worked in our group in 2012 before switching to a Solar Physics group.

Verónica Vergara Larrea

Former Graduate Student

Veronica worked with us in 2009, while doing her MS in Computational Science.  She is currently a programmer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Andrew Morten

Former Graduate Student

Andy received his BS in Physics from MIT.  Andy began his PhD work with us in 2010, and defended his dissertation in Physics in 2015. He is now a “Software Engineer in Mathematical Optimization” at Mythic-AI in Silicon Valley.

Anna Savage

Former Graduate Student

Anna received her BS in Physics from Kalamazoo College.  Anna began her PhD work with us in 2012, and defended her dissertation in Applied Physics in 2017. She is now a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Alfredo Wetzel

Former Graduate Student

Alfredo received his BS at U-M, with a double major in Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering.  Alfredo began his PhD work with us in 2010, and defended his dissertation in Applied Mathematics, jointly supervised by Professor of Mathematics Peter Miller, in 2015.  He is now a postdoc in the mathematics department at the University of Wisconsin.

Lingxiao Guan

Undergraduate Student

Daniel Garcia

Undergraduate Student

Steve Bassette

Former Undergraduate Student

Steve, a U-M double major in Physics and Mathematics, worked with us from 2011-2015.

Brandon Cloutier

Former Undergraduate Student

Brandon, a U-M double major in Physics and Complex systems, worked with us from 2012-2014, and was primarily supervised by postdoc David Trossman.  Brandon now works as a programmer.

Eliana Crawford

Former Undergraduate Student

Eliana, a Kenyon College Physics major, worked with us from 2016-2017, and was partially supervised by postdoc Joseph Ansong.  She now works in the private sector.

Houraa Daher

Former Undergraduate Student

Houraa, a U-M AOSS major, worked with us from 2014-2016, and was primarily supervised by postdoc Joseph Ansong.  Houraa is now a physical oceanography graduate student at the University of Miami.

Caroline Kinstle

Former Undergraduate Student

Caroline, a U-M AOSS major, worked with us in 2012, primarily supervised by postdoc David Trossman.

Andrew Miller

Former Undergraduate Student

Andrew, a U-M Earth and Environmental Sciences major, worked with us from 2014-2015, primarily supervised by graduate students Anna Savage and Conrad Luecke.

Aaron Skiba

Former Undergraduate Student

Aaron, a U-M Aerospace Engineering major, worked with us from 2010-2012.  He is now a postdoc in Aerospace Engineering at Cambridge University.

Jeremy Upsal

Former Undergraduate Student

Jeremy, a University of Colorado Mathematics major, worked with us from 2012-2014.  He was primarily supervised by postdoc David Trossman.  Jeremy is now an Applied Mathematics graduate student at the University of Washington.

Ji Ye

Former Undergraduate Student

Ji, a U-M Earth and Environmental Sciences major, worked with us from 2016-2017.  She was primarily supervised by graduate student Anna Savage.  Ji is now traveling the world as a Bonderman Fellow.

Libo Zeng

Former Undergraduate Student

Libo, a U-M Physics major, worked with us from 2010-2011.  He is now an Applied Mathematics graduate student at the University of Washington.

Byron Conley

Former Undergraduate Student

Byron, an FSU Physics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.  He is currently a physics PhD student at the University of Central Florida.

Will Godwin

Former Undergraduate Student

Will, an FSU Physics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.  Will received his PhD in Medical Physics in 2017.

Joey Molinari

Former Undergraduate Student

Joey, an FSU Mathematics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.

Brian Rivera

Former Undergraduate Student

Brian, an FSU Physics major, worked with us in the summer of 2009.

Jonathan Brasch

Former Undergraduate Student

Charles Light

Former Undergraduate Student

Hari Sharma

Former High School Student

Hari worked with us in the summer of 2014.  He was primarily supervised by graduate student Anna Savage.

Ayon Sen

Former High School Student

Ayon worked with us as a high school student intern during summers 2006 and 2007.  For his work with us, Ayon was a national finalist in both the Siemens and Intel high school science competitions.  Ayon now works for Oblong Industries.

Anson Varghese

Former High School Student

Anson worked with us as a high school student intern during summer 2008.  Anson is now a medical doctor.