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Michael E. Brown
American planetary astronomerborn 1965
Supervised 12 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Hyron Spinrad and Imke de Pater as doctoral advisors and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.
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Students12
- cited by a thesis record
Matthew Belyakov“Revealing the Early Solar System through Small Body Spectroscopy and Dynamics”
2027 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
M. Ryleigh Davis“Spectroscopic Characterization of Icy Moon Surfaces: Compositions, Origins, and Implications from Jupiter to”
2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
William Thomas Plent Denman“The Birth of PICL: New Laboratory Experiments for Understanding Ocean Worlds”
2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Samantha Kathleen Trumbo“Views of an Ocean World: The Signatures of Internal and External Processes on the Surface of Europa”
2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ian Yu Wong“Probing the Trojan-Hilda-KBO Connection: An Empirical Test of Dynamical Instability Models of Solar System Evolution”
2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Megan E. Schwamb“Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System”
2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Darin Alan Ragozzine“Orbital Dynamics of Kuiper Belt Object Satellites, a Kuiper Belt Family, and Extra-Solar Planet Interiors”
2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kristina Marie Barkume“Surface Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs”
2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Emily Lauren Schaller“I. Seasonal Changes in Titan’s Cloud Activity. II. Volatile Ices on Outer Solar System Objects”
2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Antonin Henri Bouchez“Seasonal Trends in Titan’s Atmosphere: Haze, Wind, and Clouds”
2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Lori Kay Fenton“Aeolian Processes on Mars: Atmospheric Modeling and GIS Analysis”
2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata2
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- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1984
The line above and below4 steps
The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
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stated by WikidataHyron Spinradstated by WikidataImke de Pater
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataHarry van der Laanstated by WikidataJohn Rush Dickel
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataMartin Ryle
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataJ. A. Ratcliffe
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 19 people: 16 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career4
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committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Matthew Belyakov“Revealing the Early Solar System through Small Body Spectroscopy and Dynamics”
committee member · 2027 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
M. Ryleigh Davis“Spectroscopic Characterization of Icy Moon Surfaces: Compositions, Origins, and Implications from Jupiter to”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hemani Kalucha“Geochemistry of Mars and Implications for Organic Carbon Preservation - Observations from Rover Data and Terrestrial Analogs”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Zachariah Milby“The Optical Aurora of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites; or, What They Do in the Shadows”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tyler Minh-Hung Nguyen“Infrared Action Spectroscopy of Biomolecules for Planetary Science Applications”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Morgan Saidel“Blown Away: Atmospheric Escape from Highly Irradiated Gas Giants”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
William Thomas Plent Denman“The Birth of PICL: New Laboratory Experiments for Understanding Ocean Worlds”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Qicheng Zhang“Sampling the Evolution of Solar System Cometoids”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jiazheng Li“The Chemistry of Europa and Venus, and Characterization of Earth-Like Exoplanets”
committee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Elizabeth Ann Bailey“Interior and Orbital Dynamics at the Innermost and Outermost Reaches of Planetary Systems”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Samantha Kathleen Trumbo“Views of an Ocean World: The Signatures of Internal and External Processes on the Surface of Europa”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christopher Spalding“The Primordial Origin and Dynamical Sculpting of Close-In Planetary System Architectures”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ian Yu Wong“Probing the Trojan-Hilda-KBO Connection: An Empirical Test of Dynamical Instability Models of Solar System Evolution”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Henry Hoang Khoi Ngo“Formation and Migration Histories of Giant Exoplanets in Multi-stellar Systems”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Adam Waszczak“Solar System Small-Body Demographics with the Palomar Transient Factory Survey”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Timothy Davies Morton“Demographic Studies of Extrasolar Planets”
committee member · 2014 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Megan E. Schwamb“Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System”
committee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Kaveh Pahlevan“Chemical and Isotopic Consequences of Lunar Formation via Giant Impact”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Darin Alan Ragozzine“Orbital Dynamics of Kuiper Belt Object Satellites, a Kuiper Belt Family, and Extra-Solar Planet Interiors”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Colette Vanessa Salyk“Molecular Spectroscopy of Planet-Forming Regions in Circumstellar Disks”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hilke Elisabeth Schlichting“Understanding the Origin of Planetary Systems: Studying the Kuiper Belt and the Dynamics of Planet Formation”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kristina Marie Barkume“Surface Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Joanna Margaret Brown“Childhood to Adolescence: Dust and Gas Clearing in Protoplanetary Disks”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Francis Thomas O'Donovan“The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Emily Lauren Schaller“I. Seasonal Changes in Titan’s Cloud Activity. II. Volatile Ices on Outer Solar System Objects”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Catherine Louise Slesnick“1-10 Myr-Old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Margaret Whei-Jie Pan“Slices of Theoretical Astrophysics: Solar System Dynamics and Relativistic Explosions”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Antonin Henri Bouchez“Seasonal Trends in Titan’s Atmosphere: Haze, Wind, and Clouds”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Shane Byrne“History and Current Processes of the Martian Polar Layered Deposits”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Lori Kay Fenton“Aeolian Processes on Mars: Atmospheric Modeling and GIS Analysis”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Benjamin Frederick Lane“High-Precision Infra-Red Stellar Interferometry”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Adam Jonathan Burgasser“The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ulyana Anatolyevna Dyudina“Light Scattering in the Clouds on Jupiter”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sarah Toby Stewart“Collisional Processes Involving Icy Bodies in the Solar System”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Chunhua Qi“Aperture Synthesis Studies of the Chemical Composition of Protoplanetary Disks and Comets”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Adam Peter Showman“I. Dynamics at the Galileo Probe Site on Jupiter and II. Orbital and Thermal Evolution of Ganymede”
committee member · 1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Franklin Perry Mills“I. Observations and Photochemical Modeling of the Venus Middle Atmosphere. II. Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Europa and Callisto”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral