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
Veale, Melanie	'17	Ma	PH	Berkeley	Postdoc	Aug 17
Lee, Eve	'17	Chiang	AY	Caltech	Sherman Fairchild Fellow	Aug 17
Price, Sedona	'17	Kriek	AY	Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE Garching)	Postdoc	Aug 17
Utomo, Dyas	'17	Blitz	AY	Ohio State	Postdoc	Aug 17
Lee, Aaron	'17	McKee & Klein	AY	UT Austin	Postdoc	Aug 17
Shivvers, Isaac	'17	Filippenko	AY	Airware	Data scientist	Aug 17
de Kleer, Katherine	'17	de Pater	AY	Caltech	51 Pegasi b Fellow (Heising-Simons)	Aug 17
Barnes, Jennifer	'17	Kasen	PH	Columbia	Einstein Fellow	Aug 17
Roth, Nathaniel	'17	Kasen	PH	University of Maryland	Joint Space Science Institute Fellow	Aug 17
Schwab, Josiah	'16	Quataert	PH	UCSC	Hubble Fellow	Aug 17
Lecoanet, Daniel	'16	Quataert	PH	Princeton	PCTS Fellow	Aug 17
Weiss, Lauren	'16	Marcy	AY	U. Montreal	Trottier Fellow	Oct 16
Fornasini, Francesca	'16	Tomsick & Kriek	AY	CfA	Postdoc	Aug 17
Keating (Karto), Garrett	'16	Bower	AY	CfA	SMA Fellow	Aug 17
Myers, Andrew	'15	McKee/Klein	PH	LBNL	Researcher	Sep 17
Petigura, Erik	'15	Marcy	AY	Caltech	Hubble Fellow	Nov 15
Stark, Casey	'15	Nugent	AY	Google	Engineer	Nov 15
McBride, James	'14	Heiles	AY	Ceres Imaging	Scientist	Nov 15
McCourt, Mike	'14	Quataert	AY	UC Santa Barbara	Hubble Fellow	Aug 17
Hull, Chat	'14	Plambeck	AY	NAOJ (based on ALMA, Chile)	Postdoc	Aug 17
George, Matt	'14	Schlegel	AY	Airware	Software Engineer	Aug 17
Klein, Chris	'14	Bloom	AY	Apple	Engineer	Oct 14
Morgan, Adam	'14	Bloom	AY	Target	Engineer	Aug 17
Miller, Adam	'13	Bloom	AY	CIERA, Northwestern University	LSST Data Science Fellow	Aug '17
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	Microsoft, Boston	Software Engineer	Aug 17
Pober, Jonathan	'13	Parsons	AY	Brown University	Assistant Professor	Jan 16
DeBuhr, Jackson	'12	Ma	PH	Indiana University	Researcher	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	JPL	Scientist	Aug 17
Luszcz Cook, Statia	'12	de Pater	AY	Columbia University	Science Fellow	Aug 17
McConnell, Nicholas	'12	Ma / Graham	AY	Herzberg/Dominion Astrophysical Obs.	Plaskett 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	Samba TV	Data scientist	Aug '17
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
Parsons, Aaron	'09	Backer	AY	Berkeley	Associate Professor	Aug '17
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. Texas, Austin	Assistant Professor	Sep '17
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 California, Santa Cruz	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
Leaman, Jesse	'08	Filippenko	AY	ARA Lab, University of Nevada	Postdoc	Spring '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	UT Austin	Assistant Professor	Aug '15
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	Assistant Professor	Sep '17
Simon, Josh	'05	Blitz	AY	Carnegie Observatories	Staff Scientist	Oct '10
Krumholz, Mark	'05	McKee	PH	Australian National University	Professor	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
Kuo, Chao-Lin	'03		AY	Stanford	Associate Professor	Aug '17
Gibson, James	'03		AY	San Francisco State University	Astronomy Technician	Aug '17
Mendez, Bryan	'02		AY	Space Sciences Lab	Astronomy Educator	Aug '17
Manning, Curtis	'02	Spinrad	AY
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
Tan, Jonathan	'01	McKee	AY	Chalmers University, Sweden	Professor	Sep 17
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	Assoc.. Prof.	Nov '08
Matzner, Christopher	'99	McKee	PH	U. of Toronto	Professor	Sep 17
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
Balbus, Steven	'81	McKee	PH	Oxford	Professor	Sep 17
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