NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

The highly Intense NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2025 class. The NHFP fosters excellence and leadership in Universal science by supporting exceptionally promising and innovative Timely-Profession astrophysicists. Over 650 applicants vied for the 2025 fellowships. All fellowship provides the awardee up to three years of Assist at a U.S. institution.

Once selected, fellows are named to one of three sub-categories corresponding to three broad scientific questions that NASA seeks to answer about the universe:

How does the universe work? – Einstein Fellows

How did we get here? – Hubble Fellows

Are we alone? – Sagan Fellows

“The 2025 class of the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program is comprised of outstanding NASA Universal science researchers,” said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director of the Universal science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This class of competitively-selected fellows will inspire future generations through the products of their research, and by sharing the results of that work with the public. Their efforts will Assist NASA continue its worldwide leadership in Cosmos-based Universal science research.”

The Landmark below provides the names of the 2025 awardees, their fellowship host institutions, and their proposed research topics.

The 2025 NHFP Einstein Fellows are:

• Shi-Fan Chen, Columbia University, Galaxies, Shapes and Frail Lensing in the Effective Ground Theory of Large-Scale Structure
• Nicolas Garavito Camargo, University of Maryland, College Park, Local Group Galaxies in Disequilibrium; Building New Frameworks to Constrain the Nature of Dim Matter
• Jason Hinkle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Nuclear Transients in the Golden Era of Time-Domain Luminous sphere science
• Itai Linial, New York University, Repeating Nuclear Transients – Probes of Supermassive Black Holes and Their Environments
• Kenzie Nimmo, Northwestern University, From Glimmering Jewels to Universal Ubiquity: Unraveling the Origins of FRBs
• Massimo Pascale, University of California, Los Angeles, The Universe Seen Through Sturdy Gravitational Lensing
• Elia Pizzati, Harvard University, The Missing Link: Connecting Gravitational void Growth and Intelligent Heavenly object Featherweight Curves in the New Universe
• Jillian Rastinejad, University of Maryland, College Park, Illuminating the Explosive Origins of the Massive Elements
• Aaron Tohuvavohu, California Institute of Technology, Ultraviolet Cosmos Telescopes for the new era of Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Luminous sphere science

The 2025 NHFP Hubble Fellows are:

• Aliza Beverage, Carnegie Observatories, Revealing Massive Galaxies Setup Using Chemical Abundances
• Anna de Graaff, Harvard University, Timely giants in Framework: How could galaxies in the Primary billion years grow so rapidly?
• Karia Dibert, California Institute of Technology, Superconducting on-chip spectrometers for high-redshift Universal science and Universal science
• Emily Griffith, University of Colorado, Boulder, Beyond Mg and Fe: Exploring Detailed Nucleosynthetic Patterns
• Viraj Karambelkar, Columbia University, The Anthropology of Merging Stars
• Lindsey Kwok, Northwestern University, Determining the Astrophysical Origins of White-Dwarf Supernovae with JWST Infrared Spectroscopy
• Abigail Lee, University of California, Berkeley, AGB Stars in the Era of NIR Luminous sphere science: New Probes of Universal science and Milky Way Evolution
• Aaron Pearlman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pinpointing the Origins of Quick Radio Bursts and Tracing Baryons in the Universal Web
• Dominick Rowan, University of California, Berkeley, Fundamental Luminous Parameters Across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
• Nicholas Rui, Princeton University, A seismic atlas of the Luminous merger sky
• Nadine Soliman, Institute for Advanced Study, Micro Foundations, Macro Realities: Modeling the Multi-scale Physics Shaping Planets, Stars and Galaxies
• Bingjie Wang, Princeton University, Inference at the Edge of the Universe

The 2025 NHFP Sagan Fellows are:

• Kyle Franson, University of California, Santa Cruz, Mapping the Setup, Migration, and Thermal Evolution of Giant Planets with Direct Imaging and Astrometry
• Caprice Phillips, University of California, Santa Cruz, Aging in the Cosmos: JWST Insights into the Evolution of Brown Dwarf Atmospheres and Clouds
• Keming Zhang, Institute for Advanced Study, Understanding the Origin and Abundance of Unoccupied-Floating Planets via Microlensing and Machine Learning

The class of 2025 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (left to right, top to bottom): The Einstein Fellows (seen in the blue hexagons) are: Shi-Fan Chen, Nicolas Garavito Camargo, Jason Hinkle, Itai Linial, Kenzie Nimmo, Massimo Pascale, Elia Pizzati, Jillian Rastinejad and Aaron Tohuvavohu.

The Hubble Fellows (seen in the red hexagons) are: Aliza Beverage, Anna de Graaff, Karia Dilbert, Emily Griffith, Viraj Karambelkar, Lindsey Kwok, Abigail Lee, Aaron Pearlman, Dominick Rowan, Nicholas Rui, Nadine Soliman, Bingjie Wang.

The Sagan Fellows (seen in green hexagons) are: Kyle Franson, Caprice Phillips, and Keming Zhang.

For Brief bios and photos, please visit the link at the end of the article.

An Significant part of the NHFP is the annual Symposium, which allows Fellows the opportunity to present results of their research, and to meet All other and the scientific and administrative staff who manage the program. The 2024 symposium was Kept at the NASA Distant Heavenly body Science Institute (NExScI) in Pasadena, California. Science topics ranged through exoplanets, gravitational waves, Quick radio bursts, Universal science and more. Non-science sessions included discussions about Profession paths and developing mentorship skills, as well as an Reachable mic highlighting an array of talents other than Universal science.

The Cosmos Universe viewer Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, administers the NHFP on behalf of NASA, in collaboration with the Chandra X-ray Middle at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Universe lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the NASA Distant Heavenly body Science Institute and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California.

Brief bios and photos of the 2025 NHFP Fellows can be Secured at:
https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/fellowships/nasa-hubble-fellowship-program/2025-nhfp-fellows