CHARA Staff at Mount Wilson
Matt Anderson - Graduate Research Assistant - adaptive optics, AGN
Theo ten Brummelaar - Director of the CHARA Array - stellar interferometry, atmospheric turbulence theory
Chris Farrington - Night Operations Manager - duplicity surveys
Robert Klement - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Be stars
Steve Golden - Assistant Site Manager - keeping the operational wheels greased
Cyprien Lanthermann - Postdoctoral Research Associate - CLASSIC++ Development, Massive Stars
Olli Majoinen - Interferometer Array Operator
Steve Ridgway - Adjunct Professor - infrared astronomy, interferometry, stellar evolution
Gail Schaefer - Associate Director and Visitor Support Scientist - young binary stars, circumstellar disks
Judit Sturmann - Research Scientist - astronomical instrumentation, lunar occultations, optical interferometry
Laszlo Sturmann - Senior Research Scientist - astronomical instrumentation, lunar occultations, optical interferometry
Nils Turner - Research Scientist - adaptive optics, optical and IR interferometry
Norm Vargas - Interferometer Array Operator
Larry Webster - Site Manager - keeping the operational wheels greased
Craig Woods - Assistant Site Manager
Faculty & Research Scientists at Georgia State University in Atlanta
Douglas Gies - Director of CHARA and Regents' Professor - Be star phenomena, hot stars, stellar winds
Fabien Baron - Associate Professor - interferometric imaging and modeling of stars, YSOs, AGNs
Jeremy Jones - CHARA Data Scientist - Ages of A type stars
Hal McAlister - Regents' Professor Emeritus - fundamental stellar properties
Deepak Raghavan - Adjunct Scientist - exoplanet systems, stellar multiplicity
Stephen Ridgway - Adjunct Professor - NOIR Lab contact for open access time
Russel White - Associate Professor - stars, brown dwarfs and planet formation
Administrative Staff in Atlanta
Alicia Rice - Business Manager - keeping the financial wheels greased
Graduate Students in Atlanta
Arturo Martinez - Graduate Research Assistant - Stellar surface imaging
Caleb Abbott - Graduate Research Assistant - AGB imaging
Becky Flores - Graduate Research Assistant - Low Mass Binary Stars
Elizabeth Lincoln - Graduate Research Assistant - Stellar surface imaging
Peter Wysocki - Graduate Research Assistant - Be Stars
Alumni
Ellyn Baines (Ph.D. 2007) - Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory.
Tabetha Boyajian (Ph.D. 2009) - Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University.
David Berger (Ph.D. 2003) - Chief Scientist at Evans Berger Scientific.
Thomas Fallon (Ph.D. 2003) - Professor at Kennesaw State University.
Christopher Farrington (Ph.D. 2009) - Night Operations Manager at the CHARA Array.
Kathryn Gordon (Ph.D. 2018) - Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow of Physics at Agnes Scott College.
Jeremy Jones (Ph.D. 2016) - Data Scientist at the CHARA Array.
Katie Lester (Ph.D. 2020) - Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Ames.
Ryan Norris (Ph.D. 2019) - Assistant Professor of Astronomy at New Mexico Tech.
David O’Brien (Ph.D. 2011) -
Chad Ogden (Ph.D. 2005) - Optical Engineer at L3Harris Technologies.
Deepak Raghavan (Ph.D. 2009) - Adjunct Faculty at Georgia State University.
James Robert Parks (Ph.D. 2014) - Instructor at Louisiana State University.
Noel Richardson (Ph.D. 2012) - Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Nic Scott (Ph.D. 2015) - Research Scientist at NASA Ames.
Yamina Touhami (Ph.D. 2013) - Risk management consultant, Atlanta.
Wean-Shun Tsay (Ph.D. 1989) -
Nils Turner (Ph.D. 1998) - IT/Research Scientist at the CHARA Array