We had 618 applications from across the country for our 2024 CIERA REU program! This is the most applications we have ever had for our program.
The students did a fantastic job this summer! Below you will find information about these very talented students who spent the 2024 summer in Evanston with us at Northwestern. Please click on each student’s name to visit their research website, which they each developed during the summer to present their research projects.
Students listed in alphabetical order by last name.
Reon Allen
California State University – Long Beach (Physics), Junior
Advisor: Daniel Lecoanet
Project: Bounds For the Near Core Magnetic Field Strength in γ Doradus Stars
Maria Calderon-Marrero
Cornell (Biology), Sophomore
Advisor: Maggie Osburn
Project: Characterizing Biomarkers Where Subsurface Waters Meet Surface Conditions has Implications for Astrobiology and Mars Exploration
Andres Chirino-Segura
University of California – Berkeley (Astronomy), Sophomore
Advisor: Dan Horton
Project: Assessing Lake Breeze Arrival Time Delays in the Weather Research and Forecasting-Community Multiscale Air Quality Model: Implications for Ozone Forecasting and Regulation
Jessica Cotturone
Augustana College (Applied Math, Computer Science, Music), Junior
Advisors: Mike Zevin, Sylvia Biscoveanu & Vicky Kalogera
Project: Characterizing Compact Object Binaries in the Lower Mass Gap with Gravitational Waves
Leah English
Illinois Institute of Technology (Astronomy, Physics), Junior
Advisor: Tjitske Starkenburg
Project: Unraveling the Dynamics of Stellar Streams in Merging Galaxies
Alina Hussain
Illinois Institute of Technology (Astronomy), Sophomore
Advisors: Seth Gossage & Vicky Kalogera
Project: Constraining Magnetic Braking through the Cataclysmic Variable Period Gap
Maša Kilibarda
Haverford (Astronomy, Physics), Sophomore
Advisors: Noah Rogers & Allison Strom
Project: Test of Ionization Correction Functions for Sulfur and Argon with JWST
Farrah Molina
University of St. Thomas – Houston , Senior
Advisors: Sarah Blunt & Jason Wang
Project: Simulating the Reflected-light Brightness of an Exoplanet as a Function of Phase
Elizabeth Moné
Georgia Institute of Technology (Physics), Junior
Advisors: Imran Sultan & Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Project: Turbulence in the Circumgalactic Medium of FIRE Simulations
Jonah Mougoue
Columbia (Physics), Junior
Advisor: André de Gouvêa
Project: Neutrino Oscillations In Matter
Amanda Newton
Loyola University Chicago (Theoretical Physics, Applied Math), Sophomore
Advisors: Sanaea Rose & Fred Rasio
Project: Spins of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
Sam Solod
DePaul University (Astronomy, Math), Sophomore
Advisors: Deepika Bollimpalli & Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Project: Radial Coherence in Accretion Disks Around Black Holes
Lillie Szemraj
Princeton (Astrophysics), Sophomore
Advisors: Sylvia Biscoveanu & Vicky Kalogera
Project: Bayesian Spin Sorting: Disentangling Non-Spinning and Spinning Binary Black Hole Systems
