Student and postdocs alumni
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2010 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Xuening Bai | PhD at Princeton | Professor, Tsinghua University |
| Cara Donnelly | PhD at Cambridge | Finance in London |
| Katharina Fierlinger | PhD Munich | Department of Physics, Tech. Univ. Munich |
| Jeffrey Fung | PhD Toronto | Assistant Professor, Clemson University |
| Emmanuel Jacquet | PhD ENS Paris | Permanent faculty in Paris at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle |
| Yusuke Kosuga | PhD at UCSD | Permanent faculty at Kyushu University |
| Nadege Lagarde | PhD Geneva | CNRS permanent researcher, U. of Besancon |
| Min-Kai Lin | PhD at Cambridge University | Associate Research Fellow, ASIAA, Taiwan |
| Shangfei Liu | PhD at Peking University | Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University. |
| Julian Mak | PhD Leeds U. | Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Jeremy McCaslin | PhD at Boulder | Researcher at Computational ThermoFluids Laboratory (company), Ithaca. |
| Farzana Meru | PhD in Exeter | Associate Professor, University of Warwick |
| Andrew Myers | PhD at Berkeley | Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| Jennifer Stone | PhD in Madison, Wisconsin | Chief Technical Officer, ManSat |
| Bhargav Vaidya | PhD in Heidelberg | Assistant Professor, IIT Indore |
| Silvia Verdolini | PhD in Leiden | STEAM Project Officer — University of Malta |
Postdoc Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Clement Baruteau | Postdoc at UCSC | Permanent faculty in Observatoire de Toulouse |
| Toby Wood | Postdoc at UCSC | Lecturer, University of Newcastle |
| Richard Stancliffe | Postdoc at Monash | Lecturer, University of Bristol |
| Geoffrey Vasil | Postdoc at CITA | Lecturer, University of Edinburgh |
| Andrew Youdin | Postdoc at CITA/CfA | Professor of Astrophysics, U. Arizona |
| Henrik Latter | Postdoc at ENS Paris | Lecturer, U. Cambridge |
| Matthias Grittschneder | Postdoc at KIAA | Head of Analytics at Thalthegos GMBH |
2011 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Ruobing Dong | PhD in Princeton | Associate Professor, U. Victoria |
| Marina Galvagni | PhD in Zurich | Software support engineer at CEI |
| Nathan Goldbaum | PhD UCSC | Senior sofware engineer, Quantsight |
| Munan Gong | PhD at Princeton | Postdoc, MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching. |
| Chelsea Huang | PhD at Princeton | DECRA Fellow, Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland |
| Peng Jiang | PhD UST China | Professor, Chinese Academy of Science |
| Guang-Xing Li | PhD MPI Radioastronomy | Associate Professor, Yunnan Univ. |
| Jacques Masson | PhD ENS Lyon | Postdoc in Exeter |
| Eva Ntormousi | PhD Munich | Assistant Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Vivien Parmentier | PhD Nice | Associate Professor, Univ. Oxford |
| Daniel Perez-Becker | PhD Berkeley | Data scientist at Yammer, Inc. |
| Zhao Sun | PhD Purple Mountain Obs | ? |
| Pascal Tremblin | PhD Saclay | Permanent researcher at CEA Saclay, Director of Maison de la simulation |
| Jiwei Xie | PhD Nanjing University | Permanent faculty at Nanjing University |
| Xi Zhang | Bisgrove fellow at U. Arizona with Adam Showman | Associate Professor at UC Santa Cruz |
Postdoc Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Christoph Federrath | ENS Lyon | Associate Professor, ANU Canberra |
| Hua-Bai Li | Postdoc at MPIA | Faculty at Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Farzana Meru | Postdoc at Heidelberg | Associate Professor, Univ. Warwick |
| Takayuki Muto | Postdoc in Tokyo Tech | Associate professor, Kogakuin University |
| Christoph Olczak | Postdoc in Heidelberg | IT developer, REWE group |
| Hanno Rein | Postdoc in Princeton | Associate professor in Toronto |
| Stefanie Walch | Postdoc in Munich | Professor at Univ. of Cologne (Koln) |
2014 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Bar-Or | PhD Weizman Institute | Algo researcher, Via |
| Paolo Bianchini | PhD MPIA | Permanent researcher, Obs. de Strasbourg |
| Bryce Bolin | MSc student in Hawaii | NASA postdoctoral fellow, Goddard Flight Center |
| Harry Braviner | PhD Cambridge | Finance job in London |
| Filippo Contenta | PhD Surrey | Satellite Scientist, eOsphere Ltd |
| Adrian Hamers | PhD Leiden | Research group leader, MPA Garching |
| Gongjie Li | PhD Harvard | Associate Professor, Gergia Inst. Tech. |
| Stephen Pardy | PhD Wisconsin | Data Scientist, Brex |
| Rosemary Shanahan | PhD at Edinburgh | ? |
| Anna Sippel | PhD Swinburne/Monash | IAU Office of Astronomy Education |
| Kathryne Daniel | PhD John Hopkins | Associate Professor, University of Arizona |
| Maxwell Xu Cai | PhD at National Astronomical Observatories of China | Software Engineer, Intel Corp. |
| Jean Teyssandier | PhD at IAP | Data Scientist, Biomodal |
| Nan Wang | PhD at Nanjing Univ. | ? |
| Xiaochen Zheng | PhD at Peking Univ. | Senior Scientist, Beijing Planetarium |
Postdoc Participants
Research Fellow, MIT EAPS
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Florent Renaud | Postdoc Saclay | Directeur de Recherches, Strasbourg U. |
| Margaret Pan | Postdoc at JPL | Research scientist, MIT |
| Anna-Lisa Varri | Postdoc at Edinburgh | Reader, U. Edinburgh |
| Matthias Grittschneder | Postdoc Munich | Head of Analytics at Thalthegos GMBH |
| Shangfei Liu | Postdoc at UCSC | Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University |
| James Owen | Postdoc at CITA | Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London |
2016 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Ashley Baker | PhD U. Penn. | Instrument Scientist, Caltech |
| Cecilia Leung | PhD Univ. Arizona | Planetary Scientist, JPL |
| Corentin Cadiou | PhD ENS Paris | Permanent faculty, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) |
| Diana Powell | PhD UC Santa Cruz | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
| George McDonald | PhD Georgia Tech. | Startup company |
| Katherina Feng | PhD UC Santa Cruz | Data Scientist, Bountiful |
| Kazumasa Ohno | PhD Tokyo Tech | Project Assistant Professor, NAOJ |
| Laura Mayorga | PhD New Mexico State U. | Astronomer, Johns Hopkins Appl. Lab |
| Matej Malik | PhD Univ. Bern | Postdoc, U. Maryland |
| Natasha Batalha | PhD Penn. State | Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz |
| Nestor Espinoza | PhD Pontificia Univ. Catolica, Chile | Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Instistute |
| Peter Gao | PhD Caltech | Staff Scientist, Carnegie Science |
| Ryan Garland | PhD Oxford | Data Scientist |
| Ryan MacDonald | PhD Cambridge. | NASA Sagan Fellow, U. Michigan |
| Thaddeus Komacek | PhD Univ. Arizona | Assistant Professor, U. Maryland |
| Tom Louden | PhD Warwick | Postdoc, University of Warwick |
| Yui Kawashima | PhD Univ. Tokyo | Assistant Professor, ISAS, Japan |
Postdoc Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Kreidberg | Postdoc U. Chicago | Director, MPA Garching |
| James Owen | Hubble Fellow, Princeton | Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London |
| Sarah Rugheimer | Simons Research Fellow, U. St. Andrews | Chair for the publich understanding of astronomy, York University, Toronto |
| Yamila Miguel | Poincarre fellow, Obs. Cote Azur Nice. | Assistant Professor, Leiden Obs. |
| Jordan Stone | Postdoc, U. Arizona | Hubble Fellow, Stewart Obs. Univ. Arizona |
| Jasmina Blecic | Postdoc, NYU Abu Dhabi | Associate Researcher, NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Eric Lopez | Postdoc, U. Edinburg | Deputy head EMAC, NASA Goddard |
| Fabio del Sordo | Postdoc, Yale | Marie Curie fellow, Institute of Space Sciences, Spain |
| Marco Gacesa | Postdoc, Nasa Ames | Assistant Professor, Khalifa University |
2017 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Floor Broekgaarden | MS U. Amsterdam | Simon fellow, NYU |
| Michael Zevin | PhD Northwestern | Astrophysicist, Alder Planetarium |
| Alejandro Vigna-Gomez | PhD Univ. Birmingham | Postdoctoral fellow, MPA |
| Valeriya Korol | PhD Univ. Leiden | Postdoctoral fellow, MPA |
| Zoheyr Doctor | PhD Univ. Chicago, KICP | Research assistant professor, Northwestern U. |
| Ron Tso | PhD Caltech | Deceased |
| Stefano Ascenzi | PhD Univ. Roma la Sapienza, Univ. Roma Tor Vergata | Postdoc, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera |
| Soumi De | PhD Syracuse Univ. | Scientist, LANL |
| Luke Kelley | PhD Harvard | Assistant adjunct professor, Astrophysics, UC Berkeley |
| Sophie Schroder | PhD Niels Bohr Institute | IAS scholar |
| John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider | PhD Univ. Guelph | Postod, Leiden U. |
| Ariadna Murguia-Berthier | PhD UC Santa Cruz | NHFP postdoc, CIERA |
| Mads Sorensen | PhD Univ. Geneva | ? |
| Francisco Rivera-Paleo | PhD Universidad Michoacana de San Nicola de Hidalgo. | Data Scientist, Grupo DAECRO |
Postdoc Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Erin O'Sullivan | Postdoc Univ. Stockholm | Senior Lecturer, Uppsala U. |
| Morgan MacLeod | NASA Einstein Fellow, IAS Princeton | Clay Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard |
| Carl-Johan Haster | Postdoctoral Fellow, CITA, Toronto | Assistant Professor, U. Nevada Las Vegas |
| Philipp Moesta | NASA Einstein fellow, UC Berkeley | Assistant Professor, U. Amsterdam |
| Johan Samsing | NASA Einstein & Lyman Spitzer fellow, Princeton | Assistant Professor, U. Copenhagen (Niels Bohr Institute) |
| Carl Rodriguez | Pappalardo Fellow, Physics, MIT | Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill |
| Jess McIver | Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech | Assistant Professor, UBC |
2018 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Rachel Cochrane | PhD University of Edinburgh | Flatiron Research Fellow |
| Corey Brummel-Smith | PhD Georgia Tech. | PhD Georgia Tech. |
| Xiaohan Wu | PhD CfA, Harvard | Postdoc, CITA |
| Cassi Lochhaas | PhD Ohio State U | Hubble Fellow, Smithsonian |
| Kartheik Iyer | PhD Rutgers Univ. | Hubble Fellow, Columbia U., CCA. |
| T.K. Daisy Leung | PhD Cornell University | Data Scientist, Amazon |
| Marius Ramsoy | PhD Oxford University | Radionuclide speciaist, Magnox Ltd. |
| Lydia Elias | PhD UC Riverside | Data Scientist, Aon |
| Aditi Vijajan | PhD Raman Research Institute | Postdoc, ANU |
| Tyler Parsotan | PhD Oregon State U | Postdoc, NASA Goddard |
| Kareem El-Badry | PhD UC Berkeley | Assistant Professor, Caltech |
| Claire Kopenhafer | PhD Michigan State University | Research Consultant, Michigan State University |
| Ulrich Steinwandel | PhD Munich Observatory | Research Fellow, Flatiron Institute |
| Xinyu Li | PhD Columbia University | Research fellow, Perimeter Institute / CITA |
| Darryl Seligman | PhD Yale University | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell |
| Josh Borrow | PhD Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham | Research engineer, Simons Observatory, U. Penn |
| Gohar Dashyan | PhD IAS Paris | Data Scientist, Preligens |
Postdoc Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Tjitske Starkenburg | Flatiron Fellow | Research assistant professor, CIERA, Northwestern U. |
| Miao Li | Flatiron Fellow | Assistant professor, Zhejiang University |
| Yuan Li | Flatiron Fellow | Assistant professor, University of North Texas |
| Chang-Goo Kim | Flatiron Fellow | Associate Research Scholar, Princeton |
| Daniel Angles-Alcazar | Flatiron Fellow | Assistant Professor, University of Conneticut |
| Chiara Mingarelli | Flatiron Fellow | Assistant Professor, Yale U. |
| Ena Choi | Hubble Fellow, Columbia | Research Professor, University of Seoul |
| Sasha Kaurov | Postdoc, IAS | Omniscope |
| Andrea Pallotini | Postdoc, Centro Fermi | Research Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Lucia Armillotta | Postdoc, ANU | Postdoc, Princeton U. |
| Sandro Tacchella | CfA Fellow, Harvard | Assistant Professor, Cambridge U. |
2019 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Connor Bottrell | PhD University of Victoria | Forrest Foundation Fellow, U. Western Australia |
| Dezso Ribli | PhD Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary | Lead AI Research Scientist at AImotive |
| Claire Guilloteau | PhD IRAP, Université de Toulouse | Maitre de conference, U. Rouen |
| Kate Storey-Fisher | PhD NYU | Postdoc, Donostia International Physics Center |
| Lorenzo Zanisi | PhD University of Southampton | Data Scientist, UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Madeline Lucey | PhD UT Austin | NSF postdoctoral fellow, U. Penn |
| Mike Walmsley | PhD Oxford University | Dunlap Fellow, U. Toronto |
| Sara Webb | PhD University of Swinburne | Astronomer, University of Swinburne |
| Szymon Nakoneczny | PhD National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw | Postdoc, Caltech |
| Paulo-Henrique Barchi | PhD Brandeis U., INPE-Brazil | Machine Learning Engineer, bol.com |
| Ting-Yun Cheng | PhD University of Nottingham | Postdoc,University of Durham |
| Daniel Muthukrishna | PhD Cambridge University | Postdoctoral fellow, MIT |
| Umna Awan | PhD Rutgers U | Research Fellow, U. Michigan |
| Emma Platts | PhD University of Cape Town | Applied Data Scientist at dunnhumby |
Postdoc Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Zheng Cai | Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz | Associate Professor, Tsinghua U. |
| Song Huang | Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz | Assistant Professor, Tsinghua U. |
| Francois Lanusse | Postdoc, UC Berkeley | CNRS researcher, CEA Saclay |
| Helena Domínguez Sánchez | Postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania | ICE Fellow, Barcelona |
| Nesar Ramachandra | Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory | Computational scientist, Argonne National Laboratory |
| Yuan-Sen Ting | Hubble Fellow; Carnegie-Princeton Fellow, Princeton. | Associate Professor, Australian National University |
| Nic Ross | STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow, University of Edinburgh | CEO, Niparo |
| Sultan Hassan | Tombaugh Postdoctoral Fellow, New Mexico State University | NASA Hubble Fellow, NYU |
2021 Alumni
Student Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Valentin Skoutnev | PhD Princeton | Postdoc, Columbia University |
| Arthur le Saux | PhD University of Exeter | Postdoc, LMD-IPSL |
| Saniya Khan | PhD University of Birmingham | Postdoc, University of Geneva |
| Abbas Raboonik | PhD Monash University | Postdoc, University of Newcastle |
| Srijan Barhati Das | PhD University of Princeton | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Smithsonian |
| Hachem Dhouib | PhD CEA Saclay | Engineer, Capegemini Engineering |
| Samarth Ganesh Kashyap | PhD Tata Institute | Postdoc, MPS Goettingen |
| Imogen Grace Cresswell | PhD University of Colorado Boulder | PhD University of Colorado Boulder |
| Christina Pontin | PhD University of Leeds | Mathematical Modeller at Mott MacDonald |
| Yuto Bekki | PhD MPS Goettingen | Postdoc MPS Goettingen |
Postdoc Participants
| Name | Affiliation during program | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Anya Samadi | Postdoc, MPS Goettingen | Scientific Assistant at Quantentechnologie-Kompetenzzentrum |
| Evan Anders | CIERA postdoctoral fellow | KITP postdoctoral fellow |
| Aurelie Astoul | Research Fellow, University of Leeds | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Leeds |
| Ankit Barik | Postdoctoral Fellow, John Hopkins Univ. | Senior researcher, John Hopkins Univ. |
| Earl Bellinger | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stellar Astrophysics Center, Aarhus | Assistant Professor, Yale U. |
| Keaton Burns | Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, MIT | Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, MIT |
| Adrian Fraser | Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, CU Boulder |
| Zhao Guo | Research Associate, University of Cambridge | Research Associate, University of Cambridge |
| Yoshiki Hatta | Postdoctoral researcher NAOJ | Research Fellow, ISEE, Nagoya U. |
| Arpita Roy | Postdoctoral Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa | Senior Program Scientist, Schmidt Sciences |
| Amit Seta | Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University | Senior Resarch Fellow, Australian National University |