Soumya Ray
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Dr. Soumya Ray was a post-doc with MCLASS lab from 2022 to 2024 working on the CORALS and CRATER instrument.
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Placement: Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grace Ni
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Grace graduated in 2023 with a Ph D in geology. Her thesis was titled "Characterizing chemical signatures of life via Mass Spectrometry."
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Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech
Ben Farcy
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Ben graduated in Fall 2021 with a Ph.D. in geology. His thesis was titled: "A Prototype Miniature Mass Spectrometer For In Situ Analysis Of Trace Elements On Planetary Surfaces."
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Placement: CRESST Postdoctoral Research Associate at NASA GSFC
Anais Bardyn
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Anais Bardyn was a post-doc with MCLASS lab from 2019 to 2022 working on the CORALS instrument.
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Placement: Coordinator in the Department of Mathematics at UMD
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Kiran Almas
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Kiran Almas graduated in 2021 with a Master of Science in Geology. Her thesis is titled "Radiometric Dating of Rocky Planetary Bodies with Rb-Sr and LA-ICPMS".
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Placement: Ph.D. student at UMD in Dr. Rich Walker's Lab