Hillenbrand, Lynne A.

Committee Member — 51 thesises

• Slesnick, Catherine Louise — 1-10 Myr-Old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carvalho, Adolfo Sjoberg de — A Detailed Study of the Inner Disks of FU Ori Objects and the Star-Disk Boundary (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Becker, George Dana — A High-Resolution Study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davis, Ivey E. — A Portrait of the Sun as a Young Star: Studying Space Weather Around Young Suns in the Optical and Radio (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cody, Ann Marie — A Search for Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie — A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chaplin, Vernon Hampden — Battery-Powered RF Pre-Ionization System for the Caltech Magnetohydrodynamically-Driven Jet Experiment: RF Discharge Properties and MHD-Driven Jet Dynamics (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tendulkar, Shriharsh Prakash — Beyond the Blur: Construction and Characterization of the First Autonomous AO System and an AO Survev of Magnetar Proper Motions (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Metchev, Stanimir Angelov — Brown Dwarf Companions to Young Solar Analogs: An Adaptive Optics Survey Using Palomar and Keck (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kao, Melodie Minyu — Constraining Substellar Magnetic Dynamos using Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morton, Timothy Davies — Demographic Studies of Extrasolar Planets (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soliman, Nadine Hany — Dust in Astrophysical Systems: Impacts on Dynamics, Plasma Physics, and Thermochemistry (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn — Dynamics of an Arched Magnetically-Twisted Current-Carrying Plasma (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moser, Auna Louise — Dynamics of Magnetically Driven Plasma Jets: An Instability of an Instability, Gas Cloud Impacts, Shocks, and Other Deformations (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldberg, Max Elliot — Early Dynamics and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Yi — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Unstable Dynamics of Caltech’s Plasma Jet: X-Rays, Ultraviolet, and Visible Light (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Piskorz, Danielle F. — Exploring Exoplanets' Spectroscopic Secrets: Clues on the Migration and Formation of Hot Jupiters (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mooley, Kunal Prakash — Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trainor, Ryan Francis — Faint Galaxies in the Megaparsec-Scale Environments of Hyperluminous QSOs at Redshifts 2 < z < 3 (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pérez Muñoz, Laura María — Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eisner, Joshua Aaron — High Angular Resolution Studies of the Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tinyanont, Samaporn — Insights Into Stellar Explosions From Infrared Light (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Theios, Rachel Lauren — Leveraging the Rest-Ultraviolet and Rest-Optical Spectra of Galaxies at 2 < z < 3 (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salyk, Colette Vanessa — Molecular Spectroscopy of Planet-Forming Regions in Circumstellar Disks (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kraus, Adam L. — Multiple Star Formation (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Findeisen, Krzysztof — New Insights from Aperiodic Variability of Young Stars (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barenfeld, Scott Alexander — New Insights into Circumstellar Disk Evolution in the Era of ALMA (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stevenson, Matthew Alan — Observational and Theoretical Advances in Cosmological Foreground Emission (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• David, Trevor Justin — On the Evolutionary Pathways of Stars and Extrasolar Planets (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guszejnov, Dávid — On the Origin of Scales and Scaling Laws in Star Formation (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oklopčić, Antonija — Radiative Processes in Astrophysical Gases: From the Intergalactic and Interstellar Medium to Exoplanetary Atmospheres (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacoby, Bryan Anthony — Recycled Pulsars (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenthal, Lee Jesse — The California Legacy Survey: a Three-Decade Census of Extrasolar Planets (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Donovan, Francis Thomas — The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burgasser, Adam Jonathan — The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prusinski, Nikolaus Zen — The Geometry and Kinematics of Baryonic Feedback (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Selman, Fernando Javier — The Initial Mass Function and Star-Formation History in the 30 Doradus Super-Association (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudie, Gwen Charlena — The Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium Surrounding Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 2<z<3 (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mishra, Abhilash — The Low-Frequency Frontier: Cosmology with Future 21cm Experiments (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bochenek, Christopher David — The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grudić, Michael Yvan — The Role of Stellar Feedback in Star Cluster Formation (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Villadsen, Jacqueline Rose — The Search for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Samuel Kuhnman — Three Paths to Particle Dark Matter (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiktorowicz, Sloane John — Unambiguous Black Hole Mass from Polarimetry and Application to Hot Jupiters (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Guochao — Understanding the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies with Intensity Mapping (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlichting, Hilke Elisabeth — Understanding the Origin of Planetary Systems: Studying the Kuiper Belt and the Dynamics of Planet Formation (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Strom, Allison Leigh — Unveiling the Physical Conditions in Star-Forming Galaxies at the Peak of Galaxy Assembly (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balokovic, Mislav — Unveiling the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei with Hard X-ray Spectroscopy (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Zhihui — Unveiling the Structure of the Circumgalactic Medium of High-Redshift Galaxies via Emission and Absorption Lines (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Ke — Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Christopher, Micol Huw — Young, Massive Star Clusters in the Antennae (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))