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Graduate Students
Positions of Former
Positions of Former
PhD Students
First and current position of former PhD students.
If updates are needed for any listed positions, please send relevant information to the Graduate Academic Program Coordinator, Chelsey Fisher (cms5993@psu.edu).
Name | Year | Advisor | Thesis Title | First Position after Graduation |
Current Position |
Shifu Zhu | 2022 | Brandt | X-ray properties of radio-loud AGNs | Posdoctoral Scholar, University of Science and Technology of China | Posdoctoral Scholar, University of Science and Technology of China |
Elizabeth Melton | 2022 | Feigelson | Searching for Transiting Planets Around 1 Million Stars | Assistant Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering and Director of the Oakley Observatories, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering and Director of the Oakley Observatories, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
Sameer | 2022 | Charlton | Unveiling the Circumgalactic Medium Using a Cloud-by-cloud, Multiphase, Bayesian Ionization Modeling Approach | Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame | Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame |
Jonathan Jackson | 2022 | Dawson | Observational and Dynamical Constraints on High-eccentricity Migration of Hot and Warm Jupiters | Teaching Fellow, Wesleyan University | Teaching Fellow, Wesleyan University |
Jiayin Dong | 2022 | Dawson | Tracing Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems: From Protoplanets to Young and Mature Planetary Systems | Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics at Flatiron Institute | Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics at Flatiron Institute |
Benjamin Donovan | 2022 | McEntaffer | A Path Toward Future Large-Scale, High-Performance Soft X-ray Spectrometers | Principal Systems Engineer, Northrup Grumman | Principal Systems Engineer, Northrup Grumman |
William Bowman | 2022 | Ciardullo | Robust Estimation of the Physical Properties of z~2 Emission-line Galaxies | Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University | Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University |
Noah Tuchow | 2022 | Wright | Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Assessing the Habitable Histories of Stellar Systems | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard |
Caleb Cañas | 2022 | Mahadevan | Characterization of transiting planets and brown dwarfs using near-infrared spectroscopy | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard |
Shubham Kanodia | 2022 | Mahadevan | Developing new tools and techniques to probe the M dwarf planet population | Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab (EPL) | Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab (EPL) |
Brian Davis | 2022 | Ciardullo | Late-Stage Evolution of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars | Software Engineer, Google | Software Engineer, Google |
Matthias He | 2022 | Ford | Statistical Inference on the Distribution of Exoplanetary Systems: Correlations in Planetary System Architectures | Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Notre Dame | Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Notre Dame |
Ningxiao Zhang | 2021 | McEntaffer | New Fabrication and Metrology Methods for Blazed, Radially-ruled Gratings | System Engineer, GPR (Ground Positioning Radar) | System Engineer, GPR (Ground Positioning Radar) |
Michael Rodruck | 2021 | Charlton | Stellar Populations of Tidal Tails | Assistant Professor, Randolph-Macon College | Assistant Professor, Randolph-Macon College |
Drew Miles | 2021 | McEntaffer | A reflection-grating spectrometer for extended-source soft-x-ray astronomy | Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Physics, California Institute of Technology | Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Physics, California Institute of Technology |
Qingling Ni | 2021 | Brandt | Active galactic nuclei studies in cosmic X-ray survey fields | Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Edinburgh | Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Edinburgh |
Jacob Luhn | 2021 | Wright | The Astrophysical Origins of Stellar Radial Velocity Variability and its Impact on Planet Detection | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Irvine | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Irvine |
Sofia Sheikh | 2021 | Wright | Observational and Theoretical Studies of Radio Technosignatures and Pulsars | Postdoctoral Scholar in the Breakthrough Listen Project, University of California, Berkeley | NSF-ASCEND Postdoctoral Fellow, SETI Institute |
Mariah MacDonald | 2021 | Dawson | Constraining the formation and evolution of super-Earths via dynamics | Assistant Professor of Physics, The College of New Jersey | Assistant Professor of Physics, The College of New Jersey |
Jake McCoy | 2020 | McEntaffer | Applied Nanofabrication for X-ray Grating Spectroscopy | Postdoctoral Scholar, The Pennsylvania State University | Postdoctoral Scholar, The Pennsylvania State University |
Samuel Hull | 2020 | Falcone | Detector Technologies for Future High-Throughput and Fine-Resolution X-ray Telescopes | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard |
Danley Hsu | 2020 | Ford | Characterizing Kepler Occurrence Rates Using Approximate Bayesian Computation | Data Scientist, Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University |
Data Scientist, Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University |
Evan Bray | 2020 | Burrows |
Characterizing X-ray Hybrid CMOS Detectors for Future X-ray Space Telescopes |
Optical Engineer, Northrop Grumman | Optical Engineer, Peraton |
Name | Year | Advisor | Thesis Title | First Position after Graduation | Current Position |
Gudmundur Stefansson | 2019 | Mahadevan | Extreme Precision Photometry and Radial Velocimetry from the Ground | Henry Norris Russell Fellow, Princeton University | Henry Norris Russell Fellow, Princeton University |
Henry Gebhardt | 2019 | Jeong | In Pursuit of Optimal Clustering Analysis with Emission Line Surveys | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Mallory Molina | 2019 | Eracleous | Resolving Black Hole and Star Formation Activity in Nearby Galaxies | Postdoctoral Scholar with Amy Reines at Montana State University | Postdoctoral Researcher and 2021 Ford Postdoctoral Fellow at Montana State University-Bozeman |
Moupiya Maji | 2018 | Li | Illuminating the Star Clusters and Dwarf Galaxies with multi-scale Baryonic Simulations | Postdoctoral scholar, University of Geneva | Postdoctoral scholar, University of Geneva |
Christopher Culliton | 2018 | Charlton | Probing Quasar Winds Using Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Line | ||
Jackson Norris | 2019 | Charlton | Multi-Phase Modeling of Intervening Quasar Absorption Line Systems at z < 1 | Postdoctoral scholar, Osaka University | Data Scientist at Nationwide |
Guang Yang | 2019 | Brandt | What drives the growth of black holes? | Postdoctoral scholar, Texas A&M University | Postdoctoral scholar, Texas A&M University |
Gabriel Caceres | 2018 | Feigelson | Autoregressive Planet Search: Methodology & Application to The Kepler Mission | Data Scientist, SparkBeyond | Senior Data Scientist at Teachers Pay Teachers |
Alexander Richert | 2017 | Feigelson | The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks | ||
Alex Hagen | 2017 | Ciardullo | A Study in Lyman Alpha | Data Scientist, Vizual.ai | Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm |
Lea Hagen | 2017 | Gronwall | Swift/UVOT Observations of Star Formation and Dust Attenuation in Both Local and High Redshift Galaxies | Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute | Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm |
Joanna Bridge | 2017 | Gronwall | Using Emission Lines to Characterize Galaxy Properties: From Nearby to the Distant Universe | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Louisville | Senior Data Scientist at Humana |
Natasha Batalha | 2017 | Sigurdsson | A Synergistic Approach to Interpreting Planetary Atmospheres | Postdoctoral position with Nicole Lewis at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore | Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center |
Kimberly Cartier | 2017 | Wright | Photometric Characterization Techniques for Transiting Exoplanets | Internship in science news writing and production at Eos, the science magazine of the American Geophysical Union. | News Writer and Production Associate, Eos, the science magazine of the American Geophysical Union |
Taran Esplin | 2017 | Luhman | Observations of Brown Dwarfs at Low Temperatures and Low Masses | Peter A. Strittmatter Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Arizona | Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) |
Arpita Roy | 2017 | Mahadevan | Connecting the Pale Blue Dots: Detection & Characterization of Exoplanets with Extreme Precision Spectroscopy | Caltech Robert A. Millikan Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship | Program Scientist at Schmidt Futures |
Jason Curtis | 2016 | Wright | Ruprecht 147 and the Quest to Date Middle-Aged Stars | NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University | NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University |
Samuel Halverson | 2016 | Mahadevan | Photonic Systems for High Precision Radial Velocity Measurements | Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania | Astronomical instrumentalist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Robert Morehead | 2016 | Ford | Understanding Exoplanet Populations with Simulation-based Methods | Instructor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas Tech University | Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State |
Xuesong Wang | 2016 | Wright | On Detecting New Worlds: The Art of Doppler Spectroscopy Using Iodine Cells | Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Planetary Science at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute of Washington | Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University Department of Astronomy |
Rachel Worth | 2016 | Sigurdsson | Dynamics of Life: Large-Scale Simulations of the Behavior of Small Bodies in Systems of Multiple Large Bodies | Data Scientist at Nielsen | Senior Data Scientist at Coyote Logistics |
Qirong Zhu | 2016 | Li | Formation of Disk Galaxies in ΛCDM Using Particle-based Hydrodynamics | Postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Yuexing Li, The Pennsylvania State University | McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University |
Prakash Arumugasamy | 2015 | Pavlov | Rotation Powered Pulsars in the X-rays | Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India | Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India |
Christopher Griffith | 2015 | Falcone | Characterization and Development of a New Event-Driven Hybrid CMOS X-ray Detector | NRC Postdoc research associate at the Naval Research Lab | NRC Postdoc research associate at the Naval Research Lab |
Megan Shabram | 2015 | Ford | Implications for Planet Formation from Population Inference of Kepler-Planet-Candidates and Eclipsing Binaries | Postdoctoral researcher at NASA Ames | Head of Data Science / Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Bountiful |
Ryan Terrien | 2015 | Mahadevan | New Spectroscopic Tools and Techniques for Characterizing M Dwarfs and Discovering Their Planets in the Near-Infrared | NRC Postdoctoral research associate at NIST | Assistant Professor, Carelton College |
Benjamin Nelson | 2015 | Ford | Statistical and Dynamical Remastering of Classic Exoplanet Systems | Data science scholar at Northwestern University | Senior Data Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
Michael Kuhn | 2014 | Feigelson | The Spatial Structure of Young Stellar Clusters | Post Doctoral Researcher, Universidad de Valparaiso | Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech |
Tyler Pritchard | 2014 | Roming | Ultraviolet Observations of Core-Collapse Supernovae | Postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia | Postdoctoral Researcher, NYU |
Craig Swenson | 2014 | Nousek | X-ray, Ultraviolet, and Optical Flares in Gamma-Ray Burst Light Curves | Senior Support Scientist, Science Systems and Applications, Inc, NASA | Senior Support Scientist, Science Systems and Applications, Inc, NASA |
Nurten Filiz Ak | 2014 | Brandt | Broad Absorption Line Variability on Multi-Year Timescales in a Large Quasar Sample | Assistant Professor at Erciyes University, Turkey | Assistant Professor at Erciyes University, Turkey |
Stephen Bongiorno | 2013 | Falcone | Characterization and Applications of Hybrid CMOS Detectors In X-Ray Astronomy | Postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins | Research Astrophysicist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center |
Drew Clausen | 2013 | Eracleous | Strong Encounters with Black Holes in Globular Clusters | DuBridge Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, TAPIR at Caltech | Senior Statistical Scientist at Freenome |
Brendan Mullan | 2013 | Charlton | Under Pressure: Star Clusters in the Tidal Debris of Interacting Galaxies | National Geographic Emerging Explorer and Research Scientist & Educator with Blue Marble Space Institute of Science; Director, Buhl Planetarium and Observatory at the Carnegie Science Center | Associate Professor of Physics at Pointe Park University |
Matthew Route | 2013 | Wolszczan | Radio Observations of the Brown Dwarf- Exoplanet Boundary | Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman | Senior Scientific Applications Analyst with Research Computing at Purdue University |
Kamen Todorov | 2013 | Luhman | Hot Jupiter Atmospheres With The Spitzer Space Telescope | Postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Data Scientist at Rebel |
Sara Gettel | 2012 | Wolszczan | A Search For Planets Around Red Stars | Postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Data Science Lead at athenahealth |
Jason Young | 2012 | Gronwall | Star Formation Across Galactic Environments | Research Assistant with Dr. Michael Eracleous at The Pennsylvania State University. | Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College |
Jianfeng Wu | 2012 | Brandt | X-ray and Multiwavelength Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei from Large Area Sky Surveys | Postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Professor, Department of Astronomy, Xiamen University, China |
Steven Movit | 2011 | Cowen | A Search for Neutrino Point Sources Coincident with Swift BAT Flares from BL Lac Objects | Research Staff Member at Institute for Defense Analyses | Research Staff Member at Institute for Defense Analyses |
Stephen Redman | 2011 | Ramsey | Precise Radial Velocities in the Near Infrared | Research Associate at the National Institute for Standards and Technology | Member of the Technical Staff at The Aerospace Corporation |
Jian Wu | 2011 | Schneider | A Study of UV, Optical and X-ray Emission From Quasars | Postdoctoral Researcher in Information Sciences & Technology, The Pennsylvania State University | Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University |
Antonino Cucchiara | 2010 | Fox | Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows As Probes Of Their Host Galaxies And The Cosmos | Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley/UC Santa Cruz | Postdoctoral Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute |
Bin Luo | 2010 | Brandt | X-ray and Multiwavelength Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei in the Chandra Deep Fields | Postdoctoral Researcher at The Pennsylvania State University with Dr. Niel Brandt | Professor, Nanjing University, China |
Brendan Miller | 2010 | Brandt | Xray Insights into Jets and Outflows in Radio Loud Quasars | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan with Dr. Elena Gallo | Assistant Professor at the College of St. Scholastica |
Cristian Saez | 2010 | Chartas | The X-Ray Evolution Of Inflows And Outflows Of Active Galactic Nuclei | Postdoctoral Researcher at The Pennsylvania State University with Dr. Niel Brandt | Postdoctoral Researcher, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Korea |
Name | Year | Advisor | Thesis Title | First Position after Graduation | Current Position |
Kenneth D. Moody | 2009 | Sigurdsson | Three Body Dynamics in Dense Gravitational Systems | ||
Peter Brown | 2008 | Roming | The Ultraviolet Properties of Supernovae | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utah | Research Scientist at Texas A & M University |
Helene Flohic | 2008 | Eracleous | Interpreting Double-Peaked Emission Line Profile Variability In AGNs Using Models For Accretion Disk Structures | Post-doctoral Researcher at UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy | Assistant Professor at the University of the Pacific |
Kimberly Hermann | 2008 | Ciardullo | Probing Galactic Disks with Planetary Nebulae | Postdoctoral Researcher at Lowell Observatory | Associate Professor of Physics, Penn State Mont Alto |
David Morris | 2008 | Burrows | X-Ray Flares in Gamma-Ray Bursts | Postdoctoral Scientist, George Washington University | Assistant Professor and Director of the Etelman Obwservatory at the University of the Virgin Islands |
Anand Narayanan | 2008 | Charlton | The Origins and Evolution of Weak Low Ionization Quasar Absorption Line Systems | Associate Research Scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Postdoc) | Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology |
Judith Racusin | 2008 | Burrows | The Collimation Signatures of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Jet Properties and Energetics Inferred From X-Ray Afterglow Observations | Postdoctoral Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center | Research Astrophysicist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
Manodeep Sinha | 2008 | Eracleous | Hot Halo Gas in Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Mergers | Postdoctoral Researcher at Vanderbilt University | Senior Research Software Scientist at Swinburne University of Technology |
Lijun Guo | 2007 | Mészáros | Detectability and Modelling of High-redshift GRBs | Postdoc at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor, National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China |
Bret Lehmer | 2007 | Brandt | Characterizing the X-Ray Properties and Evolution of Distant Galaxies using Deep Extragalactic Surveys | Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom Postdoctoral Fellow | Assistant Professor, University or Arkansas |
Avi Mandell | 2007 | Sigurdsson | The Effects of Circumstellar Gas on Terrestrial Planet Formation: Observation and Theory | NASA Postdoctoral fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland | Staff Scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center |
Miroslav Micic | 2007 | Sigurdsson | Gravitational Wave Radiation From The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes | Postdoc at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee | Staff Astronomer at Belgrade Observatory |
Jiajian Shen | 2007 | Schneider | Black Hole-Bulge Relationships In Broad-Line Active Galactic Nuclei | Medical Technology Program at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan | Associate Professor and Proton Physicist at Mayo Clinic Arizona |
Britton Smith | 2007 | Sigurdsson | The Transition from Population III to Population II Star Formation in the Early Universe | Postdoc at University of Colorado at Boulder | Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh |
Junfeng Wang | 2007 |
Feigelson Townsley |
An X-Ray Study of Massive Star Forming Regions with Chandra | Post Doctoral Scholar at Penn State Astronomy & Astrophysics | Assistant Professor, Xiamen University, Fujian, China |
Tamara Bogdanovic | 2006 |
Sigurdsson Eracleous |
Close Encounters of Black Holes, Stars, and Gas in Galactic Nuclei: A Study of the Observational Signatures | Postdoc, University of Maryland | Associate Professor at Georgia Tech University |
John Debes | 2005 | Sigurdsson | Digging in the Stellar Graveyard for Extrasolar Planets | DTM Postdoc at Carnegie Institute of Washington | STIS Team Lead at Space Telescope Science Institute |
Karen Lewis | 2005 | Eracleous | Unveiling the Accretion Disks that Fuel Active Galactic Nuclei | NRC Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center | |
Michele Stark | 2005 | Wade | The Origins of Hot Subdwarf Stars as Illuminated by Composite-Spectrum Binaries | Associate Director, Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium | Lecturer of Physics. Computer Science, and Engineering at the University of Michigan Flint |
Xinyu Dai | 2004 | Garmire | An X-ray Study of Gravitational Lenses | Postdoc, Ohio State University | Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma |
Jie Ding | 2004 | Charlton | Probing Galaxy Evolution Through Quasar Absorption Lines | MS student in Fiancial Engineering at New York University | Risk Manager, Amex |
Oleg Kargaltsev | 2004 | Pavlov | X-ray and Optical Emission from Neutron Stars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae | Postdoc, Penn State University | Associate professor of Physics, George Washington University |
Michael Sipior | 2003 | Eracleous | Population Synthesis and its Connection to Astronomical Observables | Postdoc, the 'Anton Pannekoek' Astronomical Institute at the University of Amsterdam | Support Staff, ASTRON: Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy |
Sarah Gallagher | 2002 | Brandt | The View through the Wind: X-ray Observations of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects | SIRTF Fellow, UCLA | Science Advisor to the President, Canadian Space Agency / Director of Institute of Earth & Space Exploration, Western University |
Rajib Ganguly | 2002 |
Charlton Eracleous |
Origins and Properties of QSO-Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines and their Host QSOs | Postdoc, The Space Telescope Science Institute | Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan Flint |
Ann Hornschemeier | 2002 | Brandt | Chandra X-ray Constraints on Normal and Starburst Galaxies at Cosmologically Interesting Distances | Chandra Fellow, Johns Hopkins University | Astrophysicist at Goddard Space Flight Center and Chief Scientist for NASSA's Physics of the Cosmos program |
Michael Weinstein | 2002 | Schneider | Photometric Redshifts of Quasars (A Sloan Digital Sky Survey Project) | Lecturer in Physics & Astronomy, Connecticut College | Senior Lecturer in Physics & Astronomy, Connecticut College |
David Andersen | 2001 | Bershady | The Photometric and Kinematic Structure and Asymmetry of Disk Galaxies | Postdoc, Max Plank Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) | Astronomer/Instrument Scientist at the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics |
John Feldmeier | 2000 | Ciardullo | A Survey of Intracluster Planetary Nebulae in the Virgo Cluster | Postdoc, Case Western Reserve University | Associate Professor, Youngstown State University |
Jason Harlow | 2000 | Schneider | The Faint End of the Stellar Luminosity Function | Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific | Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto |
Anna Jangren | 2000 | Bershady | The Evolution of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies | Postdoc, Wesleyan University | Professor at Viadidakt, Katrineholm, Sweden |
Name | Year | Advisor | Thesis Title | First Position after Graduation | Current Position |
Laura Cawley | 1999 | Burrows | Soft X-ray Spectral Analysis of the North Polar Spur | Instrument Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute | |
Catherine Grant | 1999 | Burrows | The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Hot Interstellar Medium | Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Research Scientist at the Kavli Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Suzanne Linder | 1999 | Charlton | Comparing Galaxies and Lyman Alpha Absorbers at Low Redshift | Postdoc, Cardiff University | |
Kaori Nishikida | 1999 | Burrows | Multi-Wavelength Observations of the Loop I Superbubble | Research Associate, University of Washington | |
Alin Panaitescu | 1999 | Meszaros | Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglows from Relativistic Fireballs | Lyman Spitzer Fellow, Princeton University | Research Physicist; Director's Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab |
Lee Carkner | 1998 | Feigelson | Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Magnetic Activity: Evolution and Effects | Postdoc, University of Colorado | Professor of Physics and Astronomy / Director of the John Deere Planetarium Augustana College |
Sally Hunsberger | 1998 | Charlton | Dwarf Galaxies and Their Formation: A Study in the Compact Group Environment | Lowell Observatory Postdoctoral Fellow | Retired |
Jeff Mendenhall | 1998 | Burrows | CCD Sounding Rocket Observations of the X-ray Background | Technical Staff, MIT/Lincoln Lab | Leader in Optical Systems Engineering at Lincoln Lab |
Hariklia Papathanassiou | 1998 | Meszaros | Spectral Properties of Relativistic Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts | Research Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy | Lecturer, Open University, Leiden University |
Darren Williams | 1998 | Wade/Kasting | The Stability of Habitable Planetary Environments | Assistant Professor, Penn State-Behrend | Professor of Physics / Astronomy, Penn State Behrend |
Jason Best | 1997 | Charlton | The Use of the Pointwise Dimension in an Analysis of Galaxy Clustering | Assistant Professor, Shepherd College | Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Shepherd University, and Director, Shepherd University Observatory, West Virginia |
Brian Cadwell | 1997 | Wolszczan | Pulsar Survey and Timing with the Penn State Pulsar Machines | Postdoc, Naval Research Lab | Associate Superintendent at the Naval Research Laboratory, Information Technology Division |
Sally Laurent-Muehleisen | 1997 | Feigelson | A New Sample of BL Lacertae Objects and Implications for Unified Schemes | Postdoc, UC Irvine/IGPP Livermore | Adjunct Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology |
Russet McMillan | 1997 | Ciardullo | Constraining the Ages of Supernova Progenitors | Staff Scientist, FermiLab/Sloan Survey | Lead Observing Specialist, Apache Point Observatory, NM |
Douglas O'Neal | 1997 | Neff | Spectroscopic Measurements of Starspot Parameters on Active Stars | Assistant Professor, West Liberty State College | Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Keystone College PA |
Craig Robinson | 1996 | Cordova | Constraining Emission Regions and Magnetic Field Structures in Cataclysmic Variables through X-ray, UV and Optical Observations | NRC Fellow, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | |
Zhiyu Guo | 1995 | Burrows | A Multiwavelength Study of the Orion-Eridanus Superbubble | Scientist, Lucent Technologies | |
Ralph Kraft | 1995 | Nousek | Advances in Soft X-ray Spectroscopy Using Charge-Coupled Devices | Staff Scientist, CHANDRA Center, Harvard/Smithsonian | Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
Windsor Anthony Morgan | 1995 |
Weedman Ciardullo |
Spectra and Luminosities of X-ray-Selected Active Galactic Nuclei | Associate Professor, Dickinson College | Department Chair and Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, Dickinson College, PA |