Postdocs

• Sophia Han joined in 2015 and left in 2018 for a postdoc in the N3AS collaboration where she worked at Ohio Univ. with Madappa Prakash and then proceed to the University of Washington. Sophia is now a TD Lee Fellow at the TD Lee Institute in Shanghai.
Sophia's papers at UTK:
• "Neutron star mass limit at $2M_\odot$ supports the existence of a CEP", D. Alvarez-Castillo, S. Benic, D. Blaschke, S. Han, and S. Typel, Eur. Phys. J. A52 (2016) 232 [1608.02425].
• "Cooling of neutron stars in soft X-ray transients", S. Han and A. W. Steiner, Phys. Rev. C 96 (2017) 035802 [1702.08452].
• "Color superconductivity in compact stellar hybrid configurations", I. F. Ranea-Sandoval, M. G. Orsaria, S. Han, F. Weber, and W. M. Spinella, Phys. Rev. C96 (2017) 065807.
• "Constraining Superfluidity in Dense Matter from the Cooling of Isolated Neutron Stars", S. Beloin, S. Han, A. W. Steiner, and D. Page, Phys. Rev. C 97 (2018) 015804 [1612.04289].
• "Constraining the Mass and Radius of Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters", A. W. Steiner, C. O. Heinke, S. Bogdanov, C. Li, W. C. G. Ho, A. Bahramian, and S. Han, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 476 (2018) 421 [1709.05013].
• "Tidal deformability with sharp phase transitions in (binary) neutron stars", S. Han and A.~W. Steiner, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 083014 [1810.10967].
• "Simultaneous Fitting of Neutron Star Structure and Cooling Data", S. Beloin, S. Han, A.~W. Steiner, and K. Odbadrakh, (2019) [1812.00494].

Ph.D. students

• Mohammad Al-Mamun joined in 2018 and graduated in the Dec. 2022. Mamun is now working at Intel.
Mamun's papers at UTK:
• "From the microscopic to the macroscopic world: from nucleons to neutron stars", S. Gandolfi, J. Lippuner, A.~W. Steiner, I. Tews, X. Du, and M. Al-Mamun, J. Phys. G. (2019) [ 1903.06730].
• Xingfu Du joined in 2016
Xingfu's papers at UTK:
• "From the microscopic to the macroscopic world: from nucleons to neutron stars", S. Gandolfi, J. Lippuner, A.~W. Steiner, I. Tews, X. Du, and M. Al-Mamun, J. Phys. G. (2019) [ 1903.06730].
• "Hyperons and quarks in proto-neutron stars", J. Roark, X. Du, C. Constantinou, V. Dexheimer, A.~W. Steiner, and J.~R. Stone, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 486 (2019) 5441 [ 1812.08157].
• "Hot and Dense Homogeneous Nucleonic Matter Constrained by Observations, Experiment, and Theory", X. Du, A.~W. Steiner, and J.~W. Holt, Phys. Rev. C 99 (2019) 025803 [ 1802.09710].
• Spencer Beloin joined in 2015 and received his Ph.D. in August of 2018. He is now working at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA.
Spencer's papers at UTK:
• "Simultaneous Fitting of Neutron Star Structure and Cooling Data ", S. Beloin, S. Han, A.~W. Steiner, and K. Odbadrakh, (2019) [ 1812.00494].
• "Constraining Superfluidity in Dense Matter from the Cooling of Isolated Neutron Stars", S. Beloin, S. Han, A. W. Steiner, and D. Page, Phys. Rev. C 97 (2018) 015804 [ 1612.04289].

M.A. students

• Will Moffitt joined in 2016 and received his M.A. in 2017. He is now teaching at Hiwassee College.

Undergraduate students

• Aaron Bonner was a student during the summer of 2019.
• Sarah Wellence was a student from the summer of 2020 to Aug. 2021. Sarah is now working in industry.
• Jesse N. Farr was a student from the summer of 2020 to the summer of 2022. Jesse is attending graduate school at Yale Univ.