Markos Hankin Left: Markos after his first powder shot

Current Group Members

  • Markos Hankin, Shock Compression Laboratory Manager
  • Matija Cuk, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Richard Kraus, Graduate Student, EPS
  • Will Steinhardt, Graduate Student, EPS
  • Matthew Newman, Undergraduate, Engineering
Sarah Stewart and Karin Louzada and Laurel Senft Left: Sarah misses her first PhD students: Karin Louzada and Laurel Senft (June 2009)

Former Group Members

  • Zoe Leinhardt, Postdoc in EPS (2007), now a STFC Advanced Fellow at U. of Bristol
  • Karin Louzada, Graduate student, EPS (2009); now the science attaché at the Dutch embassy in D.C.
  • Laurel Senft, Graduate student, EPS (2009), now a faculty member in the Physical Sciences department, Westchester Community College
  • Rachel Zucker, Graduate Student, EPS (2010), now a graduate student at MIT
  • Wade Henning, Graduate Student, EPS (2011), Now a postdoc at NASA Goddard
  • Robert Marcus, Graduate Student, Astrophysics (2011), now in high finance in New York.
  • Gregory Kennedy, Shock Compression Laboratory Manager (2006), now a postdoc at Georgia Tech
  • Lee Farina, Shock Compression Laboratory Manager (2010), now lives in Wisconsin
  • Benjamin Black, Undergraduate Student, EPS (2005), former Fulbright Fellow, now a graduate student at MIT in EAPS
  • Gregory Valiant, Undergraduate Student, Math (2007), now a graduate student at Berkeley
  • Kate Scheider, Research Assistant in EPS, now in Denver working for a geological mapping componay
  • Andrea Peterson, Undergraduate, Chemistry and Physics
  • Firth McEachern, Undergraduate, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Astronomy and Astrophysics (2009), now working in the City Environment and Natural Resources Office, San Fernando, Philippines
  • Peter Hedman, Undergraduate, Earth and Planetary Sciences (2010), now a research assistant at MIT.
  • Sonya Mollinger, Undergraduate, Physics (2011), now a graduate student at Stanford in Applied Physics

Research Opportunites

  • Individuals interested in planetary topics should email Sarah for more information.