| Cook, Jason Campbell | Dissecting intermediate-sized Kuiper belt objects | 2007 | Arizona State University | NIRI+ALTAIR | USA |
| Rajan, Abhijith | Exoplanet Meteorology: Characterizing The Atmospheres Of Directly Imaged Sub-Stellar Objects | 2017 | Arizona State University | GPI | USA |
| Bannister, Michele | Bright trans-neptunian objects in the Southern sky | 2014 | Australian National University | GNIRS | Australia |
| White, Marc C | Outflows from young stellar objects: the case of DG Tauri | 2014 | Australian National University | NIFS | Australia |
| Schaller, Emily Lauren | I. Seasonal changes in Titan's cloud activity. II. Volatile ices on outer solar system objects | 2008 | California Institute of Technology | NIRI+ALTAIR | USA |
| Kasliwal, Mansi M. | Bridging the gap: elusive explosions in the local universe | 2011 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N/GMOS-S/NIRI | USA |
| Schwamb, Megan E. | Beyond Sedna: probing the distant solar systems | 2011 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Levitan, David B. | Finding needles in the haystack: a search for AM CVn systems using the Palomar Transient Factory | 2013 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Mooley, Kunal P. | Exploring the dynamic radio sky: the search for slow transients with the VLA | 2015 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Singer, Leo P. | The needle in the hundred square haystack: the hunt for binary neutron star mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory | 2015 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Cao, Yi | Cosmic explosions: observations of infant hydrogen-free supernovae towards an understanding of their parent systems | 2016 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie | A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration | 2017 | California Institute of Technology | GPI | USA |
| Caminha, Gabriel Bartosch | Um Prelúdio Para o Levantamento Gravitacional Forte em Levantamentos de Grandes Áreas | 2013 | Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas | | Brazil |
| Troutman, Matthew R. | Observing carbon monoxide in circumstellar disks | 2010 | Clemson University | PHOENIX | USA |
| Liskowsky, Joseph Paul | Planet formation in transition disks: modeling, spectroscopy, and theory | 2012 | Clemson University | PHOENIX | USA |
| Andrews, Jeffrey John | Double white dwarfs as probes of single and binary star evolution | 2016 | Columbia University | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Courtney, Nathan James | X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies at z>0.3 | 2003 | Durham University | GMOS-N | UK |
| Ainul-Annuar, Nur Adlyka Binti | Towards a Complete Census of the Compton-thick AGN Population in the Local Universe | 2017 | Durham University | TRECS | UK |
| Swinbank, Anthony Mark | Mapping the dynamics, star-formation rates, and chemical properties of galaxies with integral field spectroscopy | 2005 | Durham University | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | UK |
| Stott, John Philip | The evolution of galaxies in massive clusters | 2007 | Durham University | GMOS-N | UK |
