Kunal K. Das
People
Awards Won by Past Student Members
Students at Kutztown University
Students at Stony Brook University
Graduate students co-mentored
Students at Fordham University
(Immediate post-graduate destination listed when availble)
Awards Won by Past Student Members
- LeRoy Apker Award: Caelan Brooks
For work on done at Kutztown U. and at Boston U. - Exoplanet Science Prize Fellowship (Inagaural): Brian Kilpatrick
For work done at Brown U. - Delaware Valley Science Fair, 1st place & Franklin Inst. Prize: Ankhitha Manjunatha
For work done at Kutztown U. - NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship: Brian Kilpatrick
For work on done at Brown U. - NSF Graduate Fellowship: Caelan Brooks
For work done at Harvard U. - Syed R. Ali-Zaidi Award: Caelan Brooks
For work on done at Kutztown U. - American Physical Society (APS - NYS) Research Poster Award:
Matthew Galligan, David Carretero
For work done at Fordham U. - REU at CERN, Geneva: Peter Koufalis
During time at Kutztown U. - Chambliss Award (KU): Caelan Brooks, Jacob Christ, Peter Koufalis
- Physical Sciences Award (KU): Andrew Pyle, Anna Faretty, Caelan Brooks, Jacob Christ, Peter Koufalis
- KU Bears Award (KU): Sofie Miller, Josiah McCarty,Kathryn Gabriel, Brett Yagiello, Nicholas Brown, Michael Collins, Michael Lafferty
- Campion Fellow (Fordham U): Danny Blessing, David Careterro
Students at Kutztown University
- Sophie Miller [2025-cont]
- Josiah McCarty [2024-cont] [Ph.D. student at McMaster University]
- Caelan Brooks [2018-2022] [Ph.D. student at Harvard University]
- Allison Brattley [2018-2026] [M.D.- Ph.D. Yale University; B.S. M.I.T.]
- Katherine Gabriel [2022-2026] [Ph.D. student at University of Rochester]
- Michael Lafferty [2022-2024] [Ph.D. student at University of Virginia]
- Cameron Crites [2022-cont.]
- Nicholas Davis [2020 -2021.]
- Nicholas Brown [2020 - 2021]
- Ankhitha Manjunatha [2017-2018] [B.S. Princeton University]
- Anna Faretty [2017-2020] ] [Ph.D. student at Kansas State University]
- Gerald Curran [2017-2020] [Ph.D. student at Lehigh University]
- Michael Collins [2020-2021]
- Taylor Worthington [2017-2018] [Gentex Co.]
- Adam Saybolt [2017-2017] [Intelligence Services]
- Ethan Wallace [2017-2017] [Data Specialist at Eurofins Lancaster Labs]
- Jacob McCann [2017-2017] [Ph.D. student at Penn State University]
- Angelo Vardaxis [2016-2017]
- Edward Metz [2016-2018] [Wills Towers Watson]
- Andrew Venzie [2016-2018] [Ph.D. student at Lehigh University]
- Jacob Christ [2015-2019] [Lockheed Martin, MS, Lehigh University]
- Joseph Ritzko [2015-2019] [Defense Industry]
- Jennica LeClerc [2105-2017] [Ph.D. student at Florida State University]
- Daniel Steinberg [2015-2016]
- Joshua Garner [Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic University]
- Brian Kilpatrick [2012- 2014] [Ph.D. Brown University]
- Kevin Ruppert [M.Ed Kutztown University]
- Matthew Meehan [2011- 2013] [Ph.D. U. of Wisconsin, Madison]
- Eric Entrup [2012- 014] [Lockheed Martin]
- Ian Tomes [2013-2015] [Defense Industry]
- John Janda [2012- 2014] [Engineer at DEKA]
- Ryan Scheirer [2010-2011] [Ph.D. student in Oregon State]
- Peter Koufalis [2010- 2013] [Ph.D. Cornell University]
- Andrew J. Pyle [2009- 2011] [Ph.D. The College of William & Mary]
- John Jablonski [2009] [Ph.D. student, Penn State University]
- Adam Bullock [2010- 2011]
- Alexander Smith [2008]
Students at Stony Brook University
- Sicheng Liu [2024 – 2026] [Ph.D. student at Stony Brook Univ ]
- Dan Markov [2024 – 2025] [Ph.D. student at City Univ. of New York ]
- Onyu Kim [2024 – 2025] [Ph.D. student at Rutgers Univ ]
- Leslie Yan [2024 – 2025]
- Jonathan Tekverk Ph.D. [2022 – 2024] [Ph.D. student at Stony Brook Univ ]
- Jian Jun Liu Ph.D. [2022 – 2024] [Ph.D. student at Univ. of Texas, Austin]
- Christopher Siebor [2022 – 2025] [Ph.D. student at Montana State University]
- Aryaman Mishra [2022] [Univ. of Cambridge]
Graduate Students (co-mentored)
- Hongyi Huang, Stony Brook University [2020 – 2023]
- Jonathan Tekverk, Stony Brook University [2022 – 2024]
- Jian Jun Liu, University of Texas, Austin [2022 – 2025]
- Andrew J. Pyle, The College of William and Mary, [2012 – 2018]
- Megan Ivory, The College of William and Mary, [2010 – 2015]
- Tommy Byrd, The College of William and Mary, [2012 – 2014]
- Miroslav Gajdacz, Palacký University, Czech Republic, [2010-2012]
- Sungjun Kim, Pennsylvania State University, [2003-2005]
- J. Mauricio Campuzano, Stevens Institute of Technology, [2007-2008]
- Frank Corvino, Stevens Institute of Technology, [2006-2007]
Students at Fordham University
- Jessica Leszczynski [2006-2008]
- Daniel Blessing ; [2007-2008] [Ph.D. U. of California, San Diego]
- David Carretero [2007-2008] [Ph.D. University of Cambridge, U.K.]
- Matthew Galligan [2007-2008]
- Samantha Kennelly [2007] [Mech. Engineering, Columbia University NY]
- Christopher Chung [2006]

