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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 At the bottom of the page is a link to a list that was comprehensive in 1998, but so badly out of date now that it has been moved to another page.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 Institution | Current Title/Role | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alatalo, Katey | '12 | Heiles | AY | IPAC | Postdoc | Feb '13 |
| Bauermeister, Amber | '12 | Blitz | AY | ? | ? | May '12 |
| Ganeshalingam, Mo | '12 | Filippenko | AY | LBL | Energy Analysis staff | Feb '13 |
| Huff, Eric | '12 | White? | AY | CCAPP at Ohio State | Postdoc | Feb '13 |
| Luszcz Cook, Statia | '12 | de Pater | AY | ANMH | Postdoc | May '12 |
| McConnell, Nicholas | '12 | Graham/Ma | AY | Hawaii IfA | Postdoc | May '12 |
| Siemion, Andrew | '12 | Werthimer? | AY | ? | ? | May '12 |
| Williams, Peter | '12 | Bower | AY | Harvard CfA | Postdoc | May '12 |
| Hansen, Charles | '11 | Klein? | AY | ? | ? | May '11 |
| Perley, Daniel | '11 | Bloom | AY | Caltech | Postdoc | May '11 |
| Silverman, Jeffrey | '11 | Filippenko | AY | UT Austin | Postdoc | Feb '13 |
| Strubbe, Linda | '11 | Quataert | AY | Toronto | Postdoc | May '11 |
| Converse, Joseph | '10 | Stahler | AY | University of Toledo | Postdoc | Feb '13 |
| Imara, Nia | '10 | Blitz | AY | ? | ? | Oct '10 |
| Maness, Holly | '10 | Graham | AY | Univ. of Toronto | Postdoc | Oct '10 |
| Shapiro, Kristen | '10 | Genzel | AY | Northrup-Grumman Aerospace Services | ? | Oct '10 |
| Wetzel, Andrew | '10 | White | AY | Yale | Postdoc | Oct '10 |
| Chornock, Ryan | '09 | Filippenko | AY | CfA | Postdoc | Apr '10 |
| Comerford, Julie | '09 | Davis | AY | UT Austin | Postdoc (Old McDonald Fellow) | Oct '10 |
| Desroches, Louis-Benoit | '09 | Quataert (?) | AY | LBL | Energy Analysis staff | Oct '10 |
| Laver, Conor | '09 | de Pater | AY | ? | ? | Apr '10 |
| Metzger, Bryan | '09 | Quataert | PH | Princeton | Postdoc (Einstein fellow) | Apr '10 |
| Offner, Stella | '09 | McKee | PH | CfA | Postdoc (NSF fellow) | Apr '10 |
| Peek, Kathryn | '09 | Marcy | AY | Columbia | Science journalism | Apr '10 |
| Sandstrom, Karin | '09 | Bolatto | AY | MPIfA | Postdoc | Apr '10 |
| Foley, Ryan | '08 | Filippenko | AY | Harvard | Postdoc (Clay Fellow) | Apr '10 |
| Murray-Clay, Ruth | '08 | Chiang | AY | Harvard | Postdoc (5-year ITC Fellow) | Mar '09 |
| Peek, Joshua | '08 | Heiles | AY | Columbia | Postdoc | Apr '10 |
| Robishaw, Tim | '08 | Heiles | AY | U Sydney | Postdoc | Mar '09 |
| Levine, Evan | '07 | Blitz | AY | Department of Homeland Security | Risk analyst | Oct '10 |
| Cooper, Michael | '07 | Davis | AY | UC Irvine | Hubble/CGE Fellow | Oct '10 |
| Gerke, Brian | '07 | Davis | PH | Stanford | Postdoc | July '07 |
| Yan, Renbin | '07 | Davis | AY | NYU | Postdoc | Oct '10 |
| Johnson, John | '07 | Marcy | AY | Caltech | Asst. Prof. | July '09 |
| Fitzgerald, Mike | '07 | Graham & Marcy | AY | UCLA | Asst. Prof, Phys & Astro | Aug '09 |
| Kregenow, Julia | '07 | Heiles & Edelstein | AY | Penn State | Non-tenure-track faculty | May '09 |
| Leroy, Adam | '06 | Blitz | AY | NRAO | Staff scientist | Oct '10 |
| Perrin, Marshall | '06 | Graham | AY | STScI | Assistant Astronomer (tenure-track) | Oct '10 |
| Boylan-Kolchin, Mike | '06 | Ma | PH | UC Irvine | CGE Fellow | Oct '10 |
| Wright, Jason | '06 | Marcy | AY | Penn State | tenure-track | May '09 |
| Swift, Jon | '06 | Welch | AY | Hawaii | Postdoc | Aug '06 |
| Dawson, Steve | '05 | Spinrad | AY | Industry | Feb '07 | |
| McCrady, Nate | '05 | Graham | AY | U. Montana | Asst. Prof. | Aug '09 |
| Rosolowsky, Erik | '05 | Blitz | AY | UBC Okanagan | Asst. Prof. | Nov '08 |
| Chakrabarti, Sukanya | '05 | McKee | PH | UCB | Presidential Fellow | Aug '09 |
| Simon, Josh | '05 | Blitz | AY | Carnegie Observatories | Staff scientist | Oct '10 |
| Krumholz, Mark | '05 | McKee | PH | UC Santa Cruz | tenure-track | June '08 |
| Coil, Alison | '04 | Davis | AY | UCSD | Asst. Prof. | 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 | |
| Gilbert, Andrea | '02 | Graham | AY | Aerospace Corporation | Research scientist | Sept '09 |
| Lloyd, James | '02 | Graham | AY | Cornell | tenure-track | Aug '06 |
| Spitkovsky, Anatoly | '02 | Arons | PH | Princeton | Asst. Prof., Astrophysical Sciences | April '07 |
| Webster, Zodiac | '02 | Welch | AY | Columbus State U | Assoc. Prof. of Physics | April '10 |
| 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 | U Illinois | Asst. Prof. | Nov '08 |
| Finkbeiner, Douglas | '99 | Davis | PH | Harvard | Assoc. Prof. (tenure-track) | May '11 |
| Stern, Dan | '99 | Spinrad | AY | JPL | staff research scientist | Apr '07 |
| Barth, Aaron | '98 | Filippenko | AY | UC Irvine | tenure-track | Aug '06 |
| Moustakas, Lexi | '98 | Davis | AY | JPL | staff research scientist | 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 | Gemini Observatory | Deputy Director & Head of Science | Aug '09 |
| Gonzalez, Rosa | '96 | Graham | AY | UNAM (Mexico City) | faculty | Aug '06 |
| Holzapfel, W.L. | '96 | Lange | PH | UC Berkeley | Prof., Physics | Feb '07 |
| Richter, Matt | '95 | Graham | AY | UC Davis | Research physicist | Aug '06 |
| Schlegel, David | '95 | Davis | AY | LBL | permanent position | Aug '06 |
| Johnstone, Doug | '95 | Shu | AY | U. Victoria/HIA | tenure | Sep '06 |
| Ho, Luis | '95 | Filippenko | AY | Carnegie | Permanent position | 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 | Caltech | Prof. of Planetary Sciences | Feb '07 |
| Tegmark, Max | '94 | Silk | PH | MIT | Prof. | 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 | PH | UPA | Physics prof, expt. astrophys | Feb '07 |
| Dickinson, Mark | '93 | Spinrad | AY | NOAO | tenure-track | Aug '06 |
| McCullough, Peter | '93 | Heiles | AY | STScI | staff position | Aug '06 |
| Meixner, Margaret | '93 | Welch | AY | STScI | tenure | Aug '06 |
| Tafala, Mario | '93 | Welch | AY | Obs. Astro. Nacional (Spain) | staff | Aug '06 |
| Wilner, David | '93 | Welch | AY | CfA | Permanent staff | Aug '06 |
| Edelstein, Jerry | '92 | Bowyer | AY | SSL | Research scientist | Jul '07 |
| Alsop, D.C. | '91 | Lange | PH | Harvard | Assoc. Prof, medical physics | Feb '07 |
| Shields, Joe | '91 | Filippenko | AY | Ohio U. | Prof., Physics & Astronomy | Jun '07 |
| Bernstein, G. | '89 | Richards | PH | U. Penn | Prof., Physics | Feb '07 |
| Goldhaber, D. | '88 | Townes(Betz) | PH | GE Healthcare | Mar '07 | |
| Zmuidzinas, J. | '87 | McKee(Betz) | PH | CalTech | Professor of Physics | Feb '07 |
| Djorgovski, S. | '85 | Davis | AY | CalTech | Professor of Astronomy | Feb '07 |
| Jakobsen, Peter | '83 | Bowyer | AY | ESA | JWST Project Scientist | Dec '08 |
| Kahn, S. | '80 | Bowyer | PH | Stanford | Physics Prof. | Feb '07 |
| Goldsmith, P. | '75 | Townes | PH | JPL | Feb '07 | |
| Geballe, Tom | '74 | Townes | PH | Gemini | staff astronomer | Aug '06 |
| Cudaback, David D. | '62 | Weaver | AY | UC Berkeley | tenured Astronomy Lecturer (deceased) | Feb '07 |
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.
