Current Members

Our group works closely with members of JWST teams including CANUCS, UNCOVER, VENUS, and MINERVA.

  • Lamiya Mowla – Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wellesley College.

  • Jonathan Kemp – Observatory Manager, Whitin Observatory, Wellesley College.

  • Maya Merchant – PhD student at York University, ON, Canada.

  • Nusrath Jahan – PhD student at University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

  • Ahmad Al-Imtiaz - Graduate research assistant at Center for Astronomy, Space Science, and Astrophysics, IUB, Bangladesh.

Wellesley Extragalactic Explorers

  • Fiona Boutelle - Undergraduate student at Bard College, NY, USA.

  • Crystal McArdle-Ventura '27

  • Alshimaa Ahmed ’28 - Summer Undergraduate Research Program, Wellesley College.

  • Madeleine Tuck’29

  • Livia Lawrence’29

  • Aparajita Shimpi’29

  • Grace Kachmarsky’29

Mirror

  • Peirong (Vivi) Li ’26

  • Ruofan Wang ’27

  • Lucena Villasenor ’27

  • Aroush Amir Ali’29

  • Ella Pace’29

  • Tabitha Lee’29

  • Emily Ruben’29

  • Kara Pan’29

  • Namya Jain’29

  • Pragathi Ram’29

  • Sophie Park’29

  • Jade Li’29

  • Megan Zhang’29

Former Members

  • Wamda Elzubair ’27 – Wellesley College

  • Evyn Lally ’27 – Wellesley College

  • Claire Xu ’27 – Mirror Program, Wellesley College

  • Dharlenny Soto ’26 - Wellesley College (➜ Astrophysics Masters program at CUNY).

  • Christine Hao’26 - Wellesley College (➜ Astronomy PhD program at University of Toronto, ON, Canada).

  • Alejandra Rodriguez ’25 – Wellesley College (➜ Astrophysics Masters at CUNY)

  • Julia Sherman ’25 – Wellesley College (➜ Medical Physics Grad student at Duke University)

  • Hanna Harmon ’25 – Wellesley College (➜ Astrophysics Masters-PhD Bridge at Fiske-Vanderbilt)

  • Ella Cassidy ’25 – Wellesley College

  • Jinoo Kim – Post-bac, University of Toronto (➜ PhD program at Western University)

  • Daniella Morrone – Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto (➜ Teaching Technician at University of Toronto)

  • Rebecca Ceppas de Castro – Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto (➜ PhD program at McGill University)