Graduate Students

Anthony Dicecca
M.Sc Geology & Planetary ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Mapping and Examining the Evolution of the Holuhraun lava field, Iceland using Radar
Biography: Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Neish
Ananya Srivastava
PhD StudentResearch Interests / Specializations: Geology

Bethany Schefter
M. Sc. AstronomyResearch Interests / Specializations: PAHs and Fullerenes
Biography: Supervisors: Dr. Jan Cami and Dr. Els Peeters
Cailin Gallinger
PhD StudentResearch Interests / Specializations: • Lunar thermophysics • Impact ejecta characterization • Remote sensing • Numerical modelling
Dana Michael Beaton
Master of Engineering ScienceBiography: 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 FlemmingBiography: Supervisor: Dr. Roberta Flemming

Jack Hostrawser
Master, Earth SciencesBiography: 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.

Katie Hutton
Master, Electrical EngineeringBiography: 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.
Mackenzie Russell
Ms.cResearch Interests / Specializations: Geology
Olusoji Ogunbode
Ph.D. studentResearch Interests / Specializations: Biomedical Engineering
Oluwadamilola Kadiri
MEngResearch Interests / Specializations: Engineering

Sharini Kanni Suresh Babu
MSc GeologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Planetary surface processes, Supervisors: Dr. Catherine Neish and Dr. Gordon Osinski

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.
Stephen Amey
MESc Electrical and Computer Engineering
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.