Caitlin M. Casey

Research Group Members

Prof. Caitlin Casey, Professor
Hollis Akins, 4th year UT grad student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow & UT President's Harrington Fellow
Naomi Carl, 1st year UCSB grad student
Charlotte Moore, 1st year UCSB grad student
Dr. Jed McKinney, NASA Hubble Fellow at UT
Dr. Ting-Yi Lu, Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSB
Dr. Stephanie Urbano Stawinski, Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSB
Tomas Forney, Undergraduate at UCSB
Cee McClave, Undergraduate at UCSB

Former Members

Dr. Olivia Cooper, UT Austin grad student (2020-2025) and NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Dr. Seiji Fujimoto, NASA Hubble Fellow at UT (2022-2025), current faculty at University of Toronto
Dr. Maximilien Franco, UT Austin postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024), current Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at CEA Saclay
Dr. Arianna Long, NASA Hubble Fellow at UT Austin (2022-2024), current faculty at University of Washington
Dr. Jaclyn (Jackie) Champagne, UT Austin graduate student (2016-2022), current JASPER Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Arizona
Dr. Justin Spilker, NASA Hubble Fellow at UT Austin (2017-2021), current faculty at Texas A&M University
Dr. Patrick Drew, UT Austin graduate student (2016-2021), current data scientist in Boston, MA
Dr. Sinclaire Manning, UT Austin graduate student (2015-2021), current Hubble fellow at UMass Amherst
Dr. Jorge Zavala, UT Austin postdoctoral fellow (2017-2021), current faculty at UMass Amherst
Dr. Chao-Ling Hung, Harlan J. Smith Fellow (2015-2017), former faculty at Manhattan College, current data scientist

Jake Magee, UT Undergraduate (2022-2023), current graduate student at University of Pittsburgh
Mia Fong, UT Undergraduate (2022)
Alfonso Melendez, UT Undergraduate (2022-2023), TAURUS Scholar
Rachel Nere, UMass Boston Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2022)
Imani Dindy, University of Oklahoma Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2021)
Pranav Premnath, UT Austin Undergraduate (2019-2020), current graduate student at UC Irvine
Maryam Hussaini, UT Austin Undergradaute (2020), current graduate student at Harvard
Anne Burnham, UT Austin Post-BAC (2017-2020), current graduate student at Yale
Derek Zapata, Colby College Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2019), current graduate student at Rutgers
Luna Urias, Texas Tech Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2019), data scientist at General Motors
Laney Wicker, UT Austin Undergraduate (2018-2019), current graduate student at Scripps/UCSD
Aimee Schechter, UT Austin Undergraduate (2017-2019), current graduate student at University of Colorado
Gabriella Sanchez, University of Hawai'i Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2018)
Oscar Cantua, University of Texas San Antonio and TAURUS Scholar (2018)
Richard Seifert, UT Austin Undergraduate (2017-2018), current graduate student at the University of Virginia
Meghana Killi, UT Austin Undergraduate (2016-2018), current graduate student at DAWN Copenhagen
Jonathon Brown, MIT Undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2017)
Julia Orenstein, UT Austin Undergraduate (2017)
Derek Holman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga undergraduate and TAURUS Scholar (2016), current engineer
Pranav Nair, UT Austin Undergraduate (2016)

F.A.Q.

Q: I'm finishing up my undergraduate degree and interesting in pursuing a PhD in your group. Do you have openings? A: I get a lot of enquiries from prospective students and I cannot reply to them all, so please don't take lack of response as negative feedback. I want to encourage prospective graduate students to apply to UCSB through the normal channels and rest assured that your application materials are being read carefully by the admissions committee. There are always interesting science projects to pursue and I do take on new students from the pool of applicants regularly. However, I cannot take on an unlimited number of students in the interest of time management and maintaining close mentorship of everyone in my group.

Q: Are you hiring postdocs now? A: If there's a job ad up (or recently up) on the AAS job register, then yes. Otherwise, probably not. If not but you feel there's a strong match between our research goals and some way to support your research at UCSB financially then get in touch.

Q: I'm interested in applying to bring a postdoc fellowship to UCSB to work with you. May I? A: Yes, please get in touch, the earlier the better.

Q: I'm a PhD student at another university and interested in visiting your group for a while as part of my PhD. May I? A: I've really enjoyed having some visiting PhD students join my group for a few months at a time, and often this is built in to their PhD requirements at their home universities. If you are interested in pursuing such an arrangement then discuss it with your supervisor and reach out jointly and we can discuss arrangements. It may not be possible depending on the timing, but if the match is good I'll try to facilitate it as best I can.

Q: I'm a UCSB undergrad interested in pursuing research with you. Do you have openings in your group? A: Thanks for your interest! I nominally request that undergrads interested in working with me apply through the UCSB Physics undergraduate research application form in the winter quarter.