Graduate Students

Ananya Srivastava

PhD Student

Research Interests / Specializations: Geology

Annika Vetter

M.Sc. Astronomy

Ashka Thaker

MSc geology (Planetary Science)

Biography: Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Neish

Axel Noblet

Doctoral student

Research Interests / Specializations: Geology

Benjamin Kalman

MSc in Geophysics with a specialization in Planetary Science

Bethany Schefter

M. Sc. Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: PAHs and Fullerenes
Biography: Supervisors: Dr. Jan Cami and Dr. Els Peeters

Cailin Gallinger

PhD Student

Research Interests / Specializations: • Lunar thermophysics • Impact ejecta characterization • Remote sensing • Numerical modelling

Catheryn Ryan

Biography: Supervisor: Dr. Gordon Osinski

Charmi Bhatt

MSc Astronomy

Cole Gregg

MSc. Physics and Astronomy

Daliah Bibas

MSc Geology

Biography: Supervisors: Dr. Gordon Osinski and Dr. Nigel Blamey

Dana Michael Beaton

Master of Engineering Science

Biography: Program Electrical and Computer Engineering Collaborative Specialization Planetary Science and Exploration Supervisor Sabarinathan, Jayshri 2nd Supervisor Flemming, Roberta L.

Eric Lenhart

PhD Student in Geophysics (Planetary Science)

Fengke Cao

M.Sc Geology/Planetary Science: Dr. Roberta Flemming

Biography: Supervisor: Dr. Roberta Flemming

Jack Hostrawser

Master, Earth Sciences

Biography: Jack Hostrawser, (BA, Hon. BSc,) is a master's student under the supervision of Dr. Osinski. He is interested in all aspects of lunar resource development and is pursuing means of quantifying and characterizing deposits of frozen volatiles in permanently-shadowed regions of the lunar poles. He has remote-fieldwork and analogue-mission experience, and would love to talk to you if could get him to the Moon.

Jahnavi Shah

PhD

James Burley

Ph.D. Geology

Biography: Supervisor: Dr. Gordon Osinski

Jamie Griffiths

Ms.c

Research Interests / Specializations: Astronomy

Katie Hutton

Master, Electrical Engineering

Biography: Katie is working on training machine learning algorithms on LiDAR point clouds for the purpose of damage assessment on the Lunar Gateway space station, under the supervision of Dr. Ken McIsaac. She has always had an interest in space and is enjoying participating in the collaborative specialization program.

Lauren Stone

Earth Science

Leah Sacks

PhD Planetary Science

Biography: @LithicLeah

Lukas Louwerse

MSc. Geology

Mackenzie Russell

Ms.c

Research Interests / Specializations: Geology

Maximilian Vovk

Biography: Graduated in Aerospace Engineer, I specialized in satellite applications and on space environment characterization focusing my studies on Meteor Physics, working on ablation models and meteoroids reentries simulations.

Morgan Gabor

Masters student of planetary mineralogy

Olusoji Ogunbode

Ph.D. student

Research Interests / Specializations: Biomedical Engineering

Oluwadamilola Kadiri

MESc

Research Interests / Specializations: Engineering

Reid Perkins

PhD Geology

Samantha Jade Lambier

MSc Astronomy

Sashank Vanga

Biography: Sashank is a Geology PhD candidate at Western, in the Planetary Science collaborative specialization. He is under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Neish, and is currently working on comparing LiDAR and satellite remote sensing data from terrestrial analogs of Mars. Outside school, Sashank likes to stargaze, play video games and do science outreach.

Sharini Kanni Suresh Babu

MSc Geology

Research Interests / Specializations: Planetary surface processes, Supervisors: Dr. Catherine Neish and Dr. Gordon Osinski

Simona Ruso

PhD Geology

Stephen Amey

MESc Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vlad Pac

MESc - Mechanical and Materials Engineering