Department of Astronomy Graduate Student Kiersten Boley and 2022 Ph.D. graduate Sanskriti Das have been selected as fellows for the 2024 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP), which enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research across NASA Astrophysics using theory, observation, experimentation or instrument development. Each of the 24 fellowships awarded this year provides the recipient up to three years of support. Once selected, fellows are named to one of three sub-categories corresponding to three broad scientific questions NASA has sought to answer about the universe: “How does the universe work?” (Einstein Fellows), “How did we get here?” (Hubble Fellows), and “Are we alone?” (Sagan Fellows).

Boley, the recipient of a Sagan Fellowship, will undertake exoplanet research at Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory with a program titled Identifying the 'Key Materials for Planet Formation and Evolution'. Das, a current Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University, will continue her research at Stanford as a Hubble Fellow undertaking a program titled 'Where the energetic universe meets the hot universe'.

Congratulations!