First Position after PhD
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| Name | Year | Advisor | Thesis Title | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Stephen Redman | 2011 | Ramsey | Precise Radial Velocities in the Near Infrared | Postdoctoral Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Peter Brown | 2008 | Roming | "The Ultraviolet Properties of Supernovae" | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utah |
| 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 |
| David Morris | 2008 | Burrows | "X-ray Flares in Gamma-Ray Bursts" | Postdoctoral Scientist, George Washington University |
| Manodeep Sinha | 2008 | Holley-Bockelmann Eracleous |
"Hot Halo Gas in Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Mergers" | Postdoctoral Researcher at Vanderbilt University |
| Kimberly Herrmann | 2008 | Ciardullo | "Probing Galactic Disks with Planetary Nebulae" | Postdoctoral Researcher at Lowell Observatory |
| Helene Flohic | 2008 | Eracleous | "Interpreting Double-Peaked Emission Line Proflie Variability in Agns Using Models For Accretion Disk Structures" | Post-doctoral Researcher at UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Anand Narayanan | 2008 | Charlton | "The Origins and Evolution of Weak Low Ionization Quasar Absorption Line Systems" | Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Miroslav Micic | 2007 | Sigurdsson | "Gravitational Wave Radiation From The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes" | Postdoc at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
| Lijun Gou | 2007 | Meszaros | "Detectability and Modeling of High-Redshift GRBs" | Postdoc at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Avram 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 |
| Junfeng Wang | 2007 | Feigelson Townsley |
"An X-Ray Study of Massive Star Forming Regionswith Chandra." | Post Doctoral Scholar at Penn State Astronomy & Astrophysics working on X-ray & infrared studies of young stellar clusters. |
| Jiajian Shen | 2007 | Schneider Daniel Vanden Berk |
"Black Hole-Bulge Relationships in Broad-Line Active Galactic Nuclei" | Medical Physics Resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania |
| Tamara Bogdanovic | 2006 | Eracleus Sigurdsson |
"Close Encounters of Black Holes, Stars, and Gas in Galactic Nuclei: A Study of the Observational Signatures" | Theory Prize Fellow, University of Maryland |
| John Debes | 2005 | Sigurdsson | "Digging in the Stellar Graveyard for Extrasolar Planets" | DTM Postdoc at Carnegie Institute of Washington |
| 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 |
| Xinyu Dai | 2004 | Garmire | "An X-ray Study of Gravitational Lenses" | Postdoc, Ohio State University |
| Oleg Kargaltsev | 2004 | Pavlov | "X-ray and Optical Emission from Neutron Stars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae" | Postdoc, Penn State University |
| Jie Ding | 2004 | Charlton | "Probing Galaxy Evolution Through Quasar Absorption Lines" | MS student in Financial Engineering at New York University |
| Michael Sipior | 2003 | Eracleous | "Population synthesis and its connection to astronomical observables" | Postdoc, the 'Anton Pannekoek' Astronomical Institute at the University of Amsterdam |
| Sarah Gallagher | 2002 | Brandt | The View through the Wind: X-ray Observations of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects | SIRTF Fellow, UCLA |
| Ann Hornschemeier | 2002 | Brandt | Chandra X-ray Constraints on Normal and Starburst Galaxies at Cosmologically Interesting Distances | Chandra Fellow, Johns Hopkins University |
| Michael Weinstein | 2002 | Schneider | Photometric Redshifts of Quasars (A Sloan Digital Sky Survey Project) |
Lecturer in Physics & Astronomy, Connecticut College |
| Rajib Ganguly | 2002 | Charlton Eracleous |
Origins and Properties of QSO-Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines and their Host QSOs | Postdoc, The Space Telescope Science Institute |
| David Andersen | 2001 | Bershady | The Photometric and Kinematic Structure and Asymmetry of Disk Galaxies | Postdoc, Max Plank Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) |
| Anna Jangren | 2000 | Bershady | The Evolution of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies | Postdoc, Wesleyan University |
| John Feldmeier | 2000 | Ciardullo | A Survey of Intracluster Planetary Nebulae in the Virgo Cluster | Postdoc, Case Western Reserve University |
| Jason Harlow | 2000 | Schneider | The Faint End of the Stellar Luminosity Function | Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific |
| Alin Panaitescu | 1999 | Meszaros | Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglows from Relativistic Fireballs | Lyman Spitzer Fellow, Princeton University |
| Catherine Grant | 1999 | Burrows | The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Hot Interstellar Medium | Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Laura Cawley | 1999 | Burrows | Soft X-ray Spectral Analysis of the North Polar Spur | Instrument Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute |
| 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 |
| Lee Carkner | 1998 | Feigelson | Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Magnetic Activity: Evolution and Effects | Postdoc, University of Colorado |
| Sally Hunsberger | 1998 | Charlton | Dwarf Galaxies and Their Formation: A Study in the Compact Group Environment | Lowell Observatory Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Jeff Mendenhall | 1998 | Burrows | CCD Sounding Rocket Observations of the X-ray Background | Technical Staff, MIT/Lincoln Lab |
| Darren Williams | 1998 | Wade Kasting |
The Stability of Habitable Planetary Environments | Assistant Professor, Penn State-Behrend |
| Hara Papathanassiou | 1998 | Meszaros | Spectral Properties of Relativistic Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts | Research Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy |
| Russet McMillan | 1997 | Ciardullo | Constraining the Ages of Supernova Progenitors | Staff Scientist, FermiLab/Sloan Survey |
| Brian Cadwell | 1997 | Wolszczan | Pulsar Survey and Timing with the Penn State Pulsar Machines | Postdoc, Naval Research Lab |
| Jason Best | 1997 | Charlton | The Use of the Pointwise Dimension in an Analysis of Galaxy Clustering | Assistant Professor, Shepherd College |
| Sally Laurent-Muehleisen | 1997 | Feigelson | A New Sample of BL Lacertae Objects and Implications for Unified Schemes | Postdoc, UC Irvine/IGPP Livermore |
| Doug O'Neal | 1997 | Neff | Spectroscopic Measurements of Starspot Parameters on Active Stars | Assistant Professor, West Liberty State College |
| 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 |
| Windsor Morgan | 1995 | Weedman Ciardullo |
Spectra and Luminosities of X-ray-Selected Active Galactic Nuclei | Associate Professor, Dickinson College |
| 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 |
