Most of our graduating Ph.D. students find jobs in astronomy, and go on to successful careers in astronomy. Since 1990, about 85% of our new Ph.D.’s have found astronomy research positions, and 100% have obtained jobs related to their graduate training. First positions after the Ph.D. are typically at academic institutions or national laboratories. You can find a list of recent desertions here. Below is a listing of graduates and their current jobs:
|
Name |
Ph.D. year |
Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Thankful Cromartie | 2020 | NASA Hubble Fellowship; Einstein Fellow |
| Paul Zivick | 2020 | Texas A&M University |
| Sean Linden | 2020 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Chris Hayes | 2020 | |
| Hayley Williamson | 2019 | |
| Trey Wenger | 2019 | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory |
| Lauren Bittle | 2018 | Publicis Sapient |
| Scott Suriano | 2018 | University of Tokyo |
| Meng Sun | 2018 | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Dominic Pesce | 2018 | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Andrew Burkhardt | 2018 | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| H. Jacob Borish | 2017 | University of Pittsburgh |
| Chenliang Huang | 2017 | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| Brian Prager | 2017 | Comcast Spotlight, Chesterbrook, PA |
| Nicholas Troup | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Salisbury University |
| Loreto Barcos | 2016 | ALMA Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint ALMA Observatory |
| Joanna Corby | 2016 | Visiting Professor, University of South Florida |
| Guillermo Damke | 2016 | Postdoc, Universidad de La Serena |
| Christopher Irwin | 2016 | Professor at U. Alabama |
| Kristen Jones | 2016 | Postdoctoral Associate, Arecibo Observatory |
| Siraprapa Sanpa-arsa | 2016 | Researcher, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand |
| Kimberly Sokal | 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin |
| Timothy Pennucci | 2015 | Postdoc, Eötvös Loránd University |
| Charles Romero | 2015 | Postdoc, Green Bank Observatory |
| Xiaping Tang | 2015 | Postdoc, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| Rachael Beaton | 2014 | Hubble/Carnegie-Princeton Fellow, Princeton University |
| William Dirienzo | 2014 | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Sheboygan |
| George Privon | 2014 | Postdoc, University of Florida |
| George Trammell | 2014 | Associate Development Engineer, UCLA |
| Lisa May Walker | 2014 | NIRCam Postdoc, University of Arizona |
| Bo Zhao | 2014 | Postdoc, Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics |
| Bin Chen | 2013 | Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| David Whelan | 2013 | Assistant Professor, Austin College |
| Anya Bilous | 2012 | Postdoc, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam |
| Marios Chatzikos | 2012 | Assistant Research Professor at University of Kentucky |
| Nicole Gugliucci | 2012 | Assistant Professor, Saint Anselm College |
| Paul Ries | 2012 | Technologist II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Abel Yang | 2012 | Lecturer, National University of Singapore |
| Gail Zasowski | 2012 | Assistant Professor, University of Utah |
Many of our former graduate students get permanent positions as well. Here’s a list of the rest of our graduates since 1967 and where they are now.
| Name> | Ph.D. year | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Cheng-yu Kuo | 2011 | Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University |
| Jarron Leisenring | 2011 | JWST Support Scientist, STScI |
| Ryan Lynch | 2011 | Assistant Scientist, Green Bank Observatory |
| Geneviève de Messières | 2011 | Astronomy Education Program Manager, National Air and Space Museum |
| Amy Reines | 2011 | Associate Professor, Montana State University |
| Jeff Carlin | 2010 | Research Associate, LSST |
| Mei-Yin Chou | 2010 | EPO Project Scientist, Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Ori Fox | 2010 | Instrument Scientist, STScI |
| Chan Park | 2010 | Instrumentation Scientist, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute |
| Jake Simon | 2010 | Senior Research Associate, University of Colorado |
| Dan Wik | 2010 | Assistant Professor, University of Utah |
| Ka Wah Wong | 2010 | Assistant Professor of Physics at SUNY-Brockport |
| David Nidever | 2009 | Assistant Research Professor, Montana State University |
| Srikrishna Kanneganti | 2009 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (deceased, 2013) |
| Richard Mellon | 2009 | Technical Consultant, Ab Initio Software |
| Jodie Morgan | 2009 | Chief Scientist, Morgan Research Enterprises |
| Ricardo Muñoz | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile |
| Alok Singhal | 2008 | Edgestream Partners, L.P. |
| Jennifer Bartlett | 2007 | Chief, Software Products Division, United States Naval Observatory |
| Tanim Islam | 2007 | Design Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Jeffrey Oishi | 2007 | Assistant Professor, Bates College and Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History |
| Gregory Sivakoff | 2006 | Associate Professor, University of Alberta |
| David Rosario | 2006 | Junior Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics |
| Allyson Sheffield | 2006 | Associate Professor, CUNY - LaGuardia Community College |
| Peter Frinchaboy | 2006 | Associate Professor, Texas Christian University |
| Scott Randall | 2005 | Astrophysicist, High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Jeff Crane | 2004 | Associate Director for Technological Affairs, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| John Silverman | 2004 | Assistant Professor, Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo |
| Tony Sohn | 2004 | Associate Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University |
| Jamie Ostheimer | 2002 | Associate Director, Data Science at BioElectron Technology Corporation |
| Wayne Winters | 2002 | Chair, Science Department, John Burroughs School |
| Joshua Kempner | 2002 | Senior Imaging Scientist, VisEn Medical |
| Zhenping Huang | 2001 | IceCube Neutrino Experiment, University of Maryland, and NASA/GSFC |
| Michael Siegel | 2002 | Senior Research Associate, Penn State University |
| Chih-Yueh Wang | 2001 | Department of Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan |
| Chris Palma | 2001 | Senior Lecturer, Penn State University |
| Franz Bauer | 2000 | Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| Ronak Shah | 2000 | Research Astronomer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Raymond Ohl | 2000 | Optical physicist, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Eric Richards | 1999 | Business Development, PLUS Location Systems |
| Noella D’Cruz | 1998 | Professor, Joliet Junior College |
| Jimmy Irwin | 1997 | Associate Professor, University of Alabama |
| Fan Fang | 1997 | Research Scientist, Spitzer Science Center |
| Vikram Dwarkadas | 1997 | Research Associate Professor, University of Chicago |
| Jonathan Whitney | 1996 | Formerly: Programmer, Kesmai Corporation |
| Edward Murphy | 1996 | Professor, University of Virginia |
| David Frayer | 1996 | Scientist at the Green Bank Observatory |
| Gregory Hennessy | 1995 | Astronomer, United States Naval Observatory |
| William Dalton | 1995 | VP for Production, ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. |
| Charles Nelson | 1994 | Associate Professor, Drake University |
| Richard Gelderman | 1994 | Professor, Western Kentucky University |
| Prudence Foster | 1994 | Researcher, University of Bristol |
| Michael Wise | 1992 | Head, Astronomy Group, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) |
| Eric Lufkin | 1992 | Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley |
| Brian McNamara | 1991 | Professor, University of Waterloo |
| John Houck | 1991 | Research Scientist, MIT Center for Space Research |
| Michael Fanelli | 1991 | Astrophysics Branch, NASA Ames |
| Jeffrey Mangum | 1990 | Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| Harry Lehto | 1989 | Professor, Turku University |
| David Adler | 1989 | Senior Operations Astronomer, AURA |
| Melissa McGrath | 1988 | Senior Scientist, SETI |
| Robert Emmering | 1988 | Senior IT Product Specialist, Pacific Gas & Electric |
| Deborah Crocker | 1987 | Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama |
| Raymond White | 1986 | Professor and Senior Associate Dean, University of Alabama |
| James Wadiak | 1986 | President, BioTraces Inc. (deceased, 2003) |
| Andrew Hamilton | 1984 | Professor and JILA Fellow, University of Colorado |
| Alice Monet | 1984 | Chief, Software Products Division, United States Naval Observatory (retired) |
| Patrick Seitzer | 1983 | Research Professor (Emeritus), University of Michigan |
| Susan Neff | 1982 | Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Kerry Kingham | 1982 | Earth Orientation Department, United States Naval Observatory |
| Ronald Probst | 1981 | Staff Scientist, CTIO |
| Frank Levinson | 1980 | Founder and Principal Technologist, Finisar Corporation |
| Linda Dressel | 1979 | RJH Scientific Inc. |
| Thomas Strikwerda | 1977 | Program Area Manager, National Security Space, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University |
| Alan Marscher | 1977 | Professor, Boston University |
| James Huntley | 1977 | Lucent Technologies |
| Thomas Corbin | 1977 | Chief, Cataloging Division, United States Naval Observatory (retired) |
| Thomas Bania | 1977 | Professor, Boston University |
| Jan Hollis | 1976 | Assistant Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| David Gibson | 1976 | Formerly: GEODSS Field Site, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Harold McAlister | 1975 | Regents’ Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus, Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy, Georgia State University, and Director Emeritus, Mount Wilson Observatory |
| Paul Hemenway | 1974 | Adjunct Professor, University of Denver |
| Ronald Zissell | 1973 | Observatory Director Mount Holyoke College (retired) |
| Charles Smith | 1973 | unknown |
| Alvin Miller | 1973 | CSC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (retired) |
| Paul Giguere | 1973 | Fluid Dynamics Group, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Labs |
| Frank Clark | 1973 | VSBC, Air Force Research Laboratory |
| Haywood Smith | 1972 | Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Florida |
| Fred Rosenberg | 1972 | Member, Technical Staff, Lincoln Labs, MIT |
| Dan Pascu | 1972 | Data Reduction and Instrumentation Division, Astrometry Department, United States Naval Observatory |
| Joseph Mast | 1972 | Professor Emeritus, Eastern Mennonite University |
| Dennis McCarthy | 1972 | United States Naval Observatory Earth Orientation Department, Retired |
| Mary Kay Hemenway | 1971 | Research Associate, Senior Lecturer, and Director, Educational Services Office, University of Texas, Austin (retired) |
| Catharine Garmany | 1971 | Senior Science Education Specialist - Astronomer, NOAO |
| Robert Doyle | 1970 | Associate Professor, Frostburg State University |
| Peter Shelus | 1970 | Senior Research Scientist, University of Texas, Austin |
| John Hershey | 1969 | Astronomy Program, CSC, Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Richard Berg | 1969 | Booz Allen Hamilton |
| George Lockwood | 1968 | Astronomer, Lowell Observatory |
| Paul Knappenberger | 1968 | President, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum |
| Frank Bash | 1967 | Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Austin |