YSE is a collaboration between the DARK Cosmology Centre (University of Copenhagen), UC Santa Cruz, the University of Illinois, and PIs Vivienne Baldassare (Washington State University), Maria Drout (University of Toronto), Kaisey Mandel (Cambridge University), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley) and V. Ashley Villar (Penn State).

Executive Committee

Survey Operations Team

Graduate Students

Name	Institution	Research Areas
Patrick Aleo	University of Illinois	Anomaly detection, machine/deep learning, and visualization
Zoe Ansari	DARK, University of Copenhagen
Nikki Arendse	DARK, University of Copenhagen	Cosmology, lensed transients, machine learning
Sofie Bruun	DARK, University of Copenhagen
Cecilie Cold	DARK, University of Copenhagen
Dave Coulter	UCSC	EM search and follow-up of GWs
Lindsay DeMarchi	Northwestern University	Multimessenger astronomy, multiwavelength follow up of core collapse supernovae
Kaylee De Soto	Penn. State University	Machine Learning Methods for Transient Classification
Sierra Dodd	UCSC	Accretion onto black holes, quasar variability, combining observational and theoretical techniques.
Nicholas Earl	University of Illinois	Tidal disruption events, galaxy evolution, cosmology
Alex Gagliano	University of Illinois	SN-host galaxy correlations, SN Ia cosmology
Aprajita Hajela	Northwestern University
Wynn Jacobson-Galan	UC Berkeley	Supernova progenitors, flash spectroscopy, X-ray observations, Calcium-rich supernovae
Anne Kolborg	DARK, University of Copenhagen	SNe observations and spectroscopy
Jamie Law-Smith	UCSC	Tidal disruption events, stellar mergers, compact objects
Jennifer Li	University of Illinois	AGN variability and AGN host evolution
David Matthews	Northwestern University	superluminous supernovae, fast blue optical transients in radio and X-ray
Brenna Mockler	UCSC	Tidal disruption events
Daniel Muthukrishna	Cambridge University	transient classification, machine learning
Cesar Rojas-Bravo	UCSC	SN Ia cosmology
Sophie Schroder	DARK, University of Copenhagen	effects of binary interaction on early supernovae lightcurves
Matt Siebert	UCSC	SN Ia physics and cosmology
Candice Stauffer	Northwestern University
Erika Strasburger	UC Berkely	SN Ia physics, light echoes
Stephen Thorp	Cambridge University	SN Ia cosmology
Sam Ward	Cambridge University	SN Ia cosmology
Qinan Wang	Johns Hopkins University	Extragalactic transients in TESS & Kepler
Erik Wasleske	Washington State University	AGN Variability and AGN in low-mass galaxies
Amanda Wasserman	University of Illinois	Transient classification, SN Ia cosmology
Karthik Yadavalli	Penn. State University	Stripped-envelope Supernovae

Faculty and Researchers

Name	Institution	Research Areas
Adriano Agnello	DARK, University of Copenhagen
Katie Auchettl	University of Melbourne	Active Galactic Nuclei, Tidal Disruption Events, Core Collapse Supernovae, Peculiar Transients
Vivienne Baldassare	Washington State University	Active galactic nuclei, especially in low mass galaxies, and changing-state AGN
Thomas de Boer	IfA, University of Hawaii
Ken Chambers	IfA, University of Hawaii
Maria Drout	University of Toronto
John Fairlamb	IfA, University of Hawaii
Ryan Foley	UCSC	Cosmology, young SNe, exotica
K. Decker French	University of Illinois	Tidal disruption events, AGN variability
Christa Gall	DARK, University of Copenhagen	Explosion mechanisms, dust destruction/formation, CSM supernovae
Claudio Grillo	Universita degli Studi di Milano
Jens Hjorth	DARK, University of Copenhagen	Time-domain everything
Mark Huber	IfA, University of Hawaii
Chien-Cheng Lin	IfA, University of Hawaii
Eugene Magnier	IfA, University of Hawaii
Raffaella Margutti	Northwestern University	FBOTs, SN with strong CSM interaction, Flash spectroscopy, SLSNe, GW followup
Gautham Narayan	University of Illinois	SNIa cosmology, AI/ML, rare transients/SNIa imposters
Yen-Chen Pan	National Central University	Spectroscopic and host-galaxy studies of SNe Ia
Sandra Raimundo	DARK, University of Copenhagen	Black holes, active galactic nuclei, changing-look AGN, accretion physics, gas/stellar dynamics
Armin Rest	Johns Hopkins Univ., Space Telescope Science Institute	SN Ia, exotic transients
Angie Schultz	IfA, University of Hawaii
Stephen Smartt	Queens Univ. Belfast
Ken Smith	Queens Univ. Belfast
Richard Wainscoat	IfA, University of Hawaii
Radek Wojtak	DARK, University of Copenhagen	gravitationally lensed SNe, photo-z, cosmology with type Ia SNe

Postdocs

Name	Institution	Research Areas
Kate Alexander	Northwestern University	radio observations, deaths of massive stars, compact objects, tidal disruption events, gamma-ray bursts
Charlotte Angus	DARK, University of Copenhagen	All exotic/unusual transients
Adriano Baldeschi	Northwestern University	machine learning applied to transients
Peter Blanchard	Northwestern University	rare transients, superluminous SNe, tidal disruption events, FBOTs
Joe Bright	Northwestern University
Deep Chatterjee	University of Illinois	multi-messenger astronomy
Deanne Coppejans	Northwestern University	Multi-wavelength observations of transients and CVs to understand their accretion and outflow physics. In particular I’m interested in jet physics.
Suhail Dhawan	Cambridge University	Type Ia supernovae physics, cosmology
Georgios Dimitriadis	UCSC	Type Ia supernovae physics, peculiar thermonuclear, exotic transients
Tiara Hung	UCSC	Tidal disruption events
Luca Izzo	DARK, University of Copenhagen	Ic-BL SNe, SN Ia modeling and cosmology
David Jones	UCSC	SN Ia cosmology
Nandita Khetan	DARK, University of Copenhagen	SNe Ia Cosmology, Superluminous SNe
Charlie Kilpatrick	Northwestern University	supernovae, supernova progenitor stars, circumstellar interaction
Konstantin Malanchev	University of Illinois	Supernova anomaly detection
Hugo Pfister	DARK, University of Copenhagen	massive black holes and tidal disruption events
Doogesh Ramanah	DARK, University of Copenhagen
Arka Sarangi	DARK, University of Copenhagen
Michael Stroh	Northwestern University
Kirsty Taggart	UCSC	host galaxies of CCSNe, exotic SLSNe, and LGRBs.
Giacomo Terreran	Northwestern University	Tidal Disruption Events, Core Collapse Supernova, Peculiar Transients
Kaew Tinyanont	UCSC	Core-collapse supernova, CSM interactions, Massive star mass loss
Yossef Zenati	Johns Hopkins University	mergers of compact objects, transients, MHD turbulence

Undergraduates

Name	Institution	Research Areas
Marcus Bredtved	DARK, University of Copenhagen	Cosmology and large-scale structure
Danield Brethauer	Northwestern University
Filip Matasic	University of Illinois	data science and machine learning
Sofia Rest	Johns Hopkins University
Ananay Sethi	University of Illinois	Supernovae, black holes, and cosmology
Sammy Sharief	University of Illinois	Transient classification