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UC Berkeley Ph.D.s in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Berkeley Astronomy Alumni
Name | PhD Year | Adviser | Dept. | Current Institution | Current Title/Role | Last update |
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Weiss, Lauren | '16 | Marcy | AY | U. Montreal | Trottier Fellow | Oct 16 |
Petigura, Erik | '15 | Marcy | AY | Caltech | Hubble Fellow | Nov 15 |
Stark, Casey | '15 | Nugent | AY | Engineer | Nov 15 | |
McBride, James | '14 | Heiles | AY | Ceres Imaging | Scientist | Nov 15 |
Hull, Chat | '14 | Plambeck | AY | CfA-Harvard | Jansky Fellow | Oct 14 |
George, Matt | '14 | Schlegel | AY | Square | Engineer | Oct 14 |
Klein, Chris | '14 | Bloom | AY | Apple | Engineer | Oct 14 |
Morgan, Adam | '14 | Bloom | AY | Albeado, San Francisco | Engineer | Nov 15 |
Miller, Adam | '13 | Bloom | AY | JPL | Hubble Fellow | Apr '14 |
Newman, Sarah | '13 | Genzel | AY | Urban Green Energy, NYC | Engineer | Apr 14 |
Noh, Yookyung | '13 | Cohn | AY | Intel | Engineer | Nov 15 |
Perez-Becker, Daniel | '13 | Chiang | PH | Yammer, San Francisco | Software Engineer | May 14 |
Pober, Jonathan | '13 | Parsons | AY | Brown University | Assistant Professor | Jan 16 |
Shiode, Joshua | '12 | Quataert | AY | American Astronomical Society | Bahcall Public Policy Fellow | Feb 14 |
Alatalo, Katey | '12 | Heiles | AY | Carnegie Observatories | Hubble Fellow | Jun 15 |
Bauermeister, Amber | '12 | Blitz | AY | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Communications Systems Engineer | Nov 13 |
Ganeshalingam, Mo | '12 | Filippenko | AY | LBL | Energy Analysis Staff | Feb 13 |
Huff, Eric | '12 | Seljak | AY | CCAPP at Ohio State | Postdoc | Feb 13 |
Luszcz Cook, Statia | '12 | de Pater | AY | AMNH | Postdoc | May 12 |
McConnell, Nicholas | '12 | Graham/Ma | AY | Hawaii IfA | Parrent Fellow | May 12 |
Siemion, Andrew | '12 | Werthimer | AY | Breakthrough Listen, Berkeley Astronomy | Scientific Director | May 12 |
Williams, Peter | '12 | Bower | AY | Harvard CfA | Postdoc | May 12 |
Hansen, Charles | '11 | McKee / Klein | AY | Pivotal Labs, San Francisco | Software Engineer | Nov 13 |
Perley, Daniel | '11 | Bloom | AY | Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen | Marie Curie / DARK Postdoctoral Fellow | Nov 15 |
Silverman, Jeffrey | '11 | Filippenko | AY | UT Austin | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow | Apr '14 |
Strubbe, Linda | '11 | Quataert | AY | University of British Columbia | Postdoc (Science Education & Teaching) | Aug '15 |
Fakhouri, Onsi | '10 | Ma | AY | Pivotal Labs, San Francisco | Software Engineer | Feb '13 |
Converse, Joseph | '10 | Stahler | AY | University of Toledo | Postdoc | Feb '13 |
Imara, Nia | '10 | Blitz | AY | CfA-Harvard | Postdoc | Jun '15 |
Maness, Holly | '10 | Graham | AY | Earth & Planetary Sciences, UC Berkeley | NSF SEES Fellow | Aug '14 |
Shapiro, Kristen | '10 | Genzel | AY | Northrup Grumman Corporation | Systems Engineer | Oct '10 |
Wetzel, Andrew | '10 | White | AY | Yale | Postdoc | Oct '10 |
Chornock, Ryan | '09 | Filippenko | AY | Ohio University | Assistant Professor | Apr '10 |
Comerford, Julie | '09 | Davis | AY | U. Colorado, Boulder | Assistant Professor | Nov '13 |
Desroches, Louis-Benoit | '09 | Filippenko | AY | LBL | Energy Analysis Staff | Oct '10 |
Laver, Conor | '09 | de Pater | AY | Bright Power Inc., NY | Vice President | Nov '13 |
Metzger, Brian | '09 | Quataert | PH | Columbia | Asst. Prof. | Jan '13 |
Offner, Stella | '09 | McKee | PH | U. Mass. Amherst | Assistant Professor | May '14 |
Peek, Kathryn | '09 | Marcy | AY | Popular Science Magazine | Designer of information graphics | May '14 |
Sandstrom, Karin | '09 | Bolatto | AY | UCSD | Assistant Professor | Nov '15 |
Foley, Ryan | '08 | Filippenko | AY | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Asst. Prof. | Nov '13 |
Murray-Clay, Ruth | '08 | Chiang | AY | UC Santa Cruz | Associate Professor | Oct '16 |
Peek, Joshua | '08 | Heiles | AY | STScI | Assistant Astronomer (tenure track) | Aug '15 |
Robishaw, Tim | '08 | Heiles | AY | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory | Staff Astronomer | Aug '15 |
Levine, Evan | '07 | Blitz | AY | Department of Homeland Security | Risk analyst | Oct '10 |
Cooper, Michael | '07 | Davis | AY | UC Irvine | Asst. Prof | Aug '14 |
Gerke, Brian | '07 | Davis | PH | LBL | Staff Scientist | May '14 |
Yan, Renbin | '07 | Davis | AY | University of Kentucky | Assistant Professor | May '14 |
Johnson, John | '07 | Marcy | AY | Harvard | Professor (tenured) | Aug '13 |
Fitzgerald, Mike | '07 | Graham & Marcy | AY | UCLA | Professor, Phys & Astro (tenured) | Aug '15 |
Kregenow, Julia | '07 | Heiles & Edelstein | AY | Penn State | Non-tenure-track faculty | May '09 |
Leroy, Adam | '06 | Blitz | AY | Ohio State University | Assistant Professor | Nov '15 |
Perrin, Marshall | '06 | Graham | AY | STScI | Associate Astronomer, JWST Telescope Optics Group | Aug '14 |
Boylan-Kolchin, Mike | '06 | Ma | PH | UC Irvine | CGE Fellow | Oct '10 |
Wright, Jason | '06 | Marcy | AY | Penn State | Associate Professor (tenured) | Aug '15 |
Swift, Jon | '06 | Welch | AY | Hawaii | Postdoc | Aug '06 |
Dawson, Steve | '05 | Spinrad | AY | Industry | Feb '07 | |
McCrady, Nate | '05 | Graham | AY | U. Montana | Assoc. Prof. | Aug '14 |
Rosolowsky, Erik | '05 | Blitz | AY | University of Alberta | Assistant Professor | Aug '15 |
Chakrabarti, Sukanya | '05 | McKee | PH | Rochester Institute of Technology | Professor | Aug '09 |
Simon, Josh | '05 | Blitz | AY | Carnegie Observatories | Staff Scientist | Oct '10 |
Krumholz, Mark | '05 | McKee | PH | UC Santa Cruz → Australian National University | tenure-track | Aug '15 |
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 | Associate Professor (tenured) | Aug '06 |
Spitkovsky, Anatoly | '02 | Arons | PH | Princeton | Associate Professor (tenured), 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 | Prof. | 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 | Research Scientist and Section Manager | Nov 15 |
Sallmen, Shauna | '98 | Backer | AY | UWisc-La Crosse | tenure-track | Jan '07 |
Bower, Geoff | '97 | Backer | AY | ASIAA | Research Astronomer | Aug '06 |
Korpela, Eric | '97 | Bowyer | AY | SSL | Research Scientist | Jul '07 |
Levenson, Nancy | '97 | Graham | AY | Space Telescope Science Institute | Deputy Director | Sept '16 |
Gonzalez, Rosa | '96 | Graham | AY | Centro de Radioastronom ́ıa y Astrof ́ısica, UNAM, Campus Morelia, Michoac ́an, M ́exico, C.P. 58089 | Faculty | Aug '14 |
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 alumni
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.