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UC Berkeley Ph.D.s in Astronomy and Astrophysics
This list is very incomplete. Please help flesh it out. Below are the entries which have been added since August '06. At the bottom of the page is a link to a list that was comprehensive in 1998, but so badly out of date now that it has been moved to another page. Some of the entries on that page can be copied into the table below. Others need updating.
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Berkeley Astronomy Alumni
| Name | PhD Year | Adviser | Dept. | Current position | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilbert, Andrea | '02 | Graham | AY | Research Scientist, Aerospace Corporation | Sept '09 |
| Foley, Ryan | '08 | Filippenko | AY | Postdoc at Harvard (CfA Fellow) | Mar '09 |
| Murray-Clay, Ruth | '08 | Chiang | AY | Postdoc at Harvard (5-year ITC Fellow) | Mar '09 |
| Peek, Joshua | '08 | Heiles | AY | Postdoc at Berkeley | Mar '09 |
| Robishaw, Tim | '08 | Heiles | AY | Postdoc at U Sydney | Mar '09 |
| Levine, Evan | '07 | Blitz | AY | Presidential Management Fellow in DC | May '08 |
| Cooper, Michael | '07 | Davis | AY | Spitzer Fellow at Arizona | July '07 |
| Gerke, Brian | '07 | Davis | PH | Postdoc at Stanford | July '07 |
| Yan, Renbin | '07 | Davis | AY | Postdoc at Toronto | July '07 |
| Johnson, John | '07 | Marcy | AY | NSF Fellow at Hawaii–>Asst. Prof. at Caltech, Astronomy | July '09 |
| Fitzgerald, Mike | '07 | Graham & Marcy | AY | Michelson Fellow at LLNL–>Asst. Prof at UCLA, Phys & Astro | Aug '09 |
| Kregenow, Julia | '07 | Heiles & Edelstein | AY | Penn State (non-tenure-track faculty) | May '09 |
| Leroy, Adam | '06 | Blitz | AY | Postdoc at Max-Planck | Apr '07 |
| Perrin, Marshall | '06 | Graham | AY | NSF Fellow at UCLA | Sep '07 |
| Boylan-Kolchin, Mike | '06 | Ma | PH | Postdoc at MPA | Oct '07 |
| Wright, Jason | '06 | Marcy | AY | Penn State (tenure-track) | May '09 |
| Swift, Jon | '06 | Welch | AY | Postdoc at Hawaii | Aug '06 |
| Dawson, Steve | '05 | Spinrad | AY | Industry | Feb '07 |
| McCrady, Nate | '05 | Graham | AY | Asst. Prof, U. Montana | Aug '09 |
| Rosolowsky, Erik | '05 | Blitz | AY | Asst Prof at UBC Okanagan | Nov '08 |
| Chakrabarti, Sukanya | '05 | McKee | PH | Presidential Fellow at UCB | Aug '09 |
| Simon, Josh | '05 | Blitz | AY | Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Observatories | Nov '08 |
| Krumholz, Mark | '05 | McKee | PH | UC Santa Cruz (tenure-track) | June '08 |
| Coil, Alison | '04 | Davis | AY | Asst. Prof. at U. C. San Diego | Oct '08 |
| Barranco, Joseph | '04 | Marcus | AY | San Francisco State U. (tenure-track) | June '07 |
| Chen, Vivien | '04 | Welch | AY | National Tsing Hua University | July '08 |
| Lloyd, James | '02 | Graham | AY | Cornell (tenure-track ) | Aug '06 |
| Spitkovsky, Anatoly | '02 | Arons | PHYS | Asst. Prof. at Princeton, Astrophysical Sciences | April '07 |
| Roe, Henry | '01 | de Pater | AY | Lowell Obs. (tenure-track) | Aug '06 |
| Liu, Michael | '00 | Graham | PH | IfA (Tenure-track) | Aug '06 |
| Newman, Jeffrey | '00 | Davis | AY | U. Pittsburgh (tenure-track) | May '08 |
| Matheson, Tom | '00 | Filippenko | AY | NOAO (Tenure-track) | Aug '06 |
| Leonard, Doug | '00 | Filippenko | AY | San Diego State U (Tenure-track) | Aug '06 |
| Wong, Tony | '00 | Blitz | AY | Asst. Prof. at Illinois | Nov '08 |
| Stern, Dan | '99 | Spinrad | AY | staff research scientist at JPL | Apr '07 |
| Barth, Aaron | '98 | Filippenko | AY | UC Irvine (Tenure-track) | Aug '06 |
| Moustakas, Lexi | '98 | Davis | AY | staff research scientist at JPL | Aug '06 |
| Sallmen, Shauna | '98 | Backer | AY | UWisc-La Crosse (tenure-track ) | Jan '07 |
| Bower, Geoff | '97 | Backer | AY | UC Berkeley (tenure-track) | Aug '06 |
| Korpela, Eric | '97 | Bowyer | AY | SSL Research Scientist | Jul '07 |
| Levenson, Nancy | '97 | Graham | AY | Prof. U. Kentucky | Oct '07 |
| Gonzalez, Rosa | '96 | Graham | AY | faculty at UNAM (Mexico City) | Aug '06 |
| Holzapfel, W.L. | '96 | Lange | PHYS | Prof of Physics, UC Berkeley | Feb '07 |
| Richter, Matt | '95 | Graham | AY | reseach physicist at UC Davis | Aug '06 |
| Schlegel, David | '95 | Davis | AY | permanent position at LBL | Aug '06 |
| Johnstone, Doug | '95 | Shu | AY | U. Victoria/HIA (tenure) | Sep '06 |
| Ho, Luis | '95 | Filippenko | AY | Permanent position at Carnegie | Aug '06 |
| Najita, Joan | '94 | Shu | AY | NOAO (Tenure) | Aug '06 |
| Dey, Arjun | '94 | Spinrad | AY | NOAO (Tenure) | Aug '06 |
| Brown, Michael | '94 | Spinrad / DePater | AY | Prof of Planetary Sciences, Caltech | Feb '07 |
| Tegmark, Max | '94 | Silk | PH | professor at MIT | Aug '06 |
| Valenti, Jeff | '94 | Basri | AY | STScI (Tenure) | Aug '09 |
| Williams, Jonathan P. | '94 | Blitz/Welch | AY | IfA (Tenure) | Aug '06 |
| Devlin, M.J. | '93 | Lange | PHYS | Physics prof at UPA (expt. astrophys) | Feb '07 |
| Dickinson, Mark | '93 | Spinrad | AY | NOAO (Tenure-track) | Aug '06 |
| McCullough, Peter | '93 | Heiles | AY | staff position STScI | Aug '06 |
| Meixner, Margaret | '93 | Welch | AY | STScI (Tenure) | Aug '06 |
| Tafala, Mario | '93 | Welch | AY | staff position at Obs. Astro. Nacional (Spain) | Aug '06 |
| Wilner, David | '93 | Welch | AY | Permanent staff at CfA | Aug '06 |
| Edelstein, Jerry | '92 | Bowyer | AY | Research Scientist at SSL | Jul '07 |
| Alsop, D.C. | '91 | Lange | PHYS | Asso. Prof at Harvard, medical physics | Feb '07 |
| Shields, Joe | '91 | Filippenko | AY | Physics & Astronomy Prof, Ohio U. | Jun '07 |
| Bernstein, G. | '89 | Richards | PHYS | U. Penn Physics Prof. | Feb '07 |
| Goldhaber, D. | '88 | Townes(Betz) | PHYS | GE Healthcare | Mar '07 |
| Zmuidzinas, J. | '87 | McKee(Betz) | PHYS | CalTech, Professor of Physics | Feb '07 |
| Djorgovski, S. | '85 | Davis | AY | CalTech, Professor Astronomy | Feb '07 |
| Kahn, S. | '80 | Bowyer | PHYS | Stanford Physics Prof. | Feb '07 |
| Goldsmith, P. | '75 | Townes | PHYS | Cornell Astronomy Professor→ JPL | Feb '07 |
| Geballe, Tom | '74 | Townes | PH | staff astronomer at Gemini | Aug '06 |
| Cudaback, D.D. | '62 | Weaver | AY | UC Berkeley, tenured Astronomy Lecturer (deceased) | Feb '07 |
| Jakobsen, Peter | '83 | Bowyer | AY | ESA JWST Project Scientist | Dec '08 |
Other almuni
Jon Arons compiled these tables of all Berkeley alumni since WWII and last them updated July 24, 1998.
Updates should go into the table above.
