Ph.D. Graduates
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Year of Graduation |
Name |
Advisors/Thesis |
Present Location |
2019 |
Paul Corlies |
Professor Alexander Hayes “Emerging from the Dark Ages: An Analysis of Clouds on Titan” |
Research Assoicate at Cornell University |
2019 |
Cody Lamarche |
Professor Gordon Stacey “A Detailed Study Of Star Formation At Its Cosmic Peak” |
Taking a postdoctoral position at the University of Toledo, working with JD Smith |
2019 |
Kassandra Anderson |
Professor Dong Lai “Teetering Stars and Tumultuous Orbits: Spin and Orbital Dynamics in Hot and Warm Jupiter Systems with Companions” |
Spitzer fellow at Princeton |
2019 |
Yu-Cian Hong |
Professor Jonathan Lunine "Orbital Dynamics of Pets of Extrasolar Giant Planets" |
Insight data science fellowship in NYC |
2019 |
Riccardo Pavesi |
Professor Dominik Reichers "An Exploration of Inter-stellar Gas and its Role in Galaxy Assembly over Cosmic Time" |
Data scientist at Cruise, working on driverless cars in San Francisco. |
2019 |
Will Throwe |
Professor Saul Teukolsky "Numerical Methods for Exascale Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations in General Relativity" |
Cornell Post Doc in Physics |
2019 |
Avani Gowardhan |
Professor Gordon Stacey “Star-formation Across Cosmic Time: Insight from Multi-Faceted Molecular Gas Observations” |
Insight data science fellowship in Boston |
2019 |
Amit Vishwas |
"Ground based THz Spectroscopy of Obscured Starbursts in the Early Universe enabled by ZEUS-2" |
Cornell Universty |
2018 |
J.J. Zanazzi |
Professor Dong Lai "On the Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks" |
Postdoc Fellow at CITA |
2018 |
Matt Hankins |
Professor Terry Herter "Exploring HII Regions and Massive Dusty Stars in the Galactic Center with SOFIA/FORCAST" |
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2017 |
Luke Leisman |
Professors Riccardo Giovanelli & Martha Haynes |
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Valparaiso University (Tenure-track position) |
2017 |
Sean Marshall |
Professor Donald Campbell |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico |
2017 |
Ryan Miranda |
Professor Dong Lai |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
2017 |
Tyler Pauly |
Dr. Gregory Sloan & Professor Robin Garrod "Gas-Grain Chemical Models: Inclusion of a Grain Size Distribution and a Study Of Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds" |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore |
2017 |
Dong Wang |
Professor Jonathan Lunine "Modeling the chemistry of planetary atmospheres: Implications for the bulk comositions of giant planets" |
Quantitative Consultant, JP Morgan, NYC |
2017 |
Robert Wharton
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Professor James Cordes "Radio Interferometric Searches for Galactic Center Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts" |
Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany |
2016 |
Andrew Bohn |
Professor Saul Teukolsky "Toroidal event horizons and other relativistic ray tracing adventures" |
SpaceX |
2016 |
Francois Hebert |
Professor Saul Teukolsky "General-relativistic neutron star evolutions with the discontinuous Galerkin method |
Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology |
2016 |
Michael Jones |
Professors Riccard GIovanelli & Martha Haynes "The Impact of Environment and Confusion on the Observed HI Galaxy Population" |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia |
2016 |
Michael Lam |
Professor James Cordes "A Precision Pulsar Timing Gravitational Wave Detector" |
Postdoctoral Researcher, West VIrginia University |
2016 |
Zhimeng Zhang (Z.Z.) |
Professor Alexander Hayes "Microwave observations provide clues to the origin of Saturn's main rings" |
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
2015 |
Joyce Byun |
Professor Rachel Bean "Probing The Physics Of Inflation: Searching For Non-Gaussianity In The Cosmic Microwave Background And Large-Scale Structure" |
Postdoctoral Reseracher at University of Sussex |
2015 |
Shoshanna Cole |
Professor Steven Squyres "Petrology, Stratigraphy, And Geologic History Of Husband Hill, Gusev Crater, Mars" |
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2015 |
Megan Comins |
Dr. Marina Romanova "Planet Migration Around Young Magnetized Stars" |
Data Scientist at Pekin Insurance |
2015 |
Sergei Dyda |
Professor Richard Lovelace & Dr. Marina Romanova "Magnetohydrodynamics Of Accretion To Rotating Magnetized Stars" |
Postdoctoral Scholar at UNLV |
2015 |
Jason D. Hofgartner |
Professor Jonathan Lunine & Professor Alex Hayes "Dynamic Phenomena in the Lakes and Seas of Titan" |
Postdoctoral Resrarcher at Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
2015 |
Marko Krco |
Professor Paul Goldsmith "Measurements And Time Evolution Of Atomic And Molecular Hydrogen In Interstellar Clouds" |
Professor at York College - CUNY |
2015 |
Patrick Lii |
Dr. Marina Romanova & Professor Richard Lovelace "Outflows And Accretion At The Disk-Magnetosphere Boundary" |
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2015 |
Dustin Madison |
Professor James Cordes "Efforts To Broaden And Facilitate Pulsar Timing Array Searches For Gravitational Radiation" |
Jansky Fellow at National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
2015 |
Eva-Maria Mueller |
Professor Rachel Bean "Constraining Physics Beyond The Cosmological Standard Model |
Senior Research Associate, Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation |
2015 |
Michael Roman |
Professor Peter Gierasch "Clouds, Hazes, And Methane In The Atmospheres Of Uranus And Neptune: An Analysis Of Spatially Resolved, Near Infrared Spectra" |
University of Michigan, Astronomy, Post-Doc |
2015 |
Everett Schlawin |
Professor Terry Herter "Observations Of Disintegrating, Evaporating And Hot Planet Atmospheres With Transmission Spectra" |
Steward Observatory/University of Arizona |
2015 |
Natalia Storch |
Professor Dong Lai "Spin-Orbit Coupling And Tidal Dissipation In Hot Jupiter Systems" |
Postdoctoral Researcher at California Institute of Technology - Caltech |
2014 |
Gregory Hallenbeck |
Professor Riccardo Giovanelli & Professor Martha Haynes Resolved Gas Studies of HighMass Galaxies: Massive, Gas-Rich Galaxies in ALFALFA |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College |
2014 |
Katherine Henriksson |
Professor Ira Wasserman & Professor Saul Teukolsky Solving for Black Hole-neutron Star Binary Configurations: Methods and Results |
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2014 |
Ryan Lau |
Professor Terry Herter Probing the Extreme Environment of the Galactic Center with Observations from Sofia/Forcas |
Caltech |
2014 |
Daniel Tamayo |
Professor Joseph Burns |
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2013 |
Elizabeth (Betsey) Adams |
Professor Martha Haynes |
ASTRON, Groningen, Netherlands |
2013 |
Drew Brisbin |
Professor Gordon Stacey Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution Since z~2: Results from Multiwavelength Surveys |
ALMA Postdoctoral Fellow, NRAO Charlottesville, VA |
2013 |
Carl Ferkinhoff |
Professor Gordon Stacey Development of the 2nd Generation z Redshift)and Early Universe Spectrometer & The Study of Far-IR Fine-Structure LineEmission in High-z Galaxies |
Assistant Professor of Physics at Winona State University |
2013 |
James Fuller |
Professor Dong Lai Dynamical Tides and Oscillations in Stellar and Planetary Systems |
Caltech |
2013 |
Rebecca Harbison |
Professor Phil Nicholson |
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska |
2013 |
Daniel Hemberger |
Professor Saul Teukolsky |
Post-Doc at Caltech |
2013 |
Shan Huang |
Professor Martha Haynes Gas-Rich Galaxies in the ALFALFA Survey: From HI Dwarfs to Giants |
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2013 |
Manolis Papastergis |
Professor Riccardo Giovanelli & Professor Martha Haynes Statistical Analysis of ALFALFA Galaxies: Insights in Galaxy Formation & Near-field Cosmology
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NOVA Postdoctoral Fellow, Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen (Netherlands) |
2012 |
Wen Fu |
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Rice University |
2012 |
Istvan Laszlo |
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2012 |
Kassandra Martin-Wells |
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2012 |
Laura Spitler |
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