Karin Sandstrom

My Research

I study the interstellar medium and star formation in nearby galaxies using a wide range of multi-wavelength observations. Here's a video I made with UCTV about why interstellar dust is important.

Current Research Group:

• Undergraduate Students: Justin Mascari, Jack Green
• Graduate Students: Ilyse Clark, Lindsey Hands, Hannah Koziol
• Postdoctoral Scholars: Mansi Padave, Fergus Donnan

Former Group Members:

• Undergraduate Students:
  • Bethany Ludwig (PhD U Toronto, postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven)
  • Cory Whitcomb (PhD student at U. Toledo)
  • Xuce Niu (PhD studet at U Florida)
  • Megan Li (PhD student at UCLA)
  • Tianxing Wang (PhD student at UC San Diego Materials Science)
  • Sierra Kureshy (now at Advanced Test Equipment Corp.)
  • Esther Park (post-bacc researcer at UC San Diego)
  • Shangqi Liu (PhD student at UC Riverside)
  • Geri Narvaez (BA in Physics, UC San Diego)
  • Seven Dunn (co-advised with Michael Busch, now CSULB MSc student)
  • Richard Jones (BS 2026, Physics)
• Graduate Students:
  • Maria Kapala (SARChI Fellow at University of Cape Town, CEO, Founder at Mable Furniture)
  • Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones (Postdoctoral Researcher and Fullbright Scholar, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
  • I-Da Chiang (Assistant at National Taiwan Normal University)
  • Ryan Rickards Vaught (Postdoctoral Research at STScI)
  • Yu-Hsuan Eltha Teng (Postdoctoral Research at U Maryland, College Park)
• Postdocs:
  • Cliff Johnson (Research Assistant Professor CIERA,Northwestern)
  • Jeremy Chastenet (Postdoctoral Researcher at U. Ghent)
  • Jessica Sutter (Assistant Professor at Whitman College)
  • Michael Busch (Jansky Fellow at NRAO)