Recent Graduates in Astronomy
| Name | Degree Received | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Employment |
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| Fodor, Antoniu |
2025 July | Major and Minor Pathways of Evolution: Suppressing Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies | A. Medling | 听 |
| Feathers, Colton | 2025 July | Self-consistent Theoretical Predictions of the Large-Scale Distribution of the First Stars and Galaxies | E. Visbal | 听 |
| Beiler, Sam |
2025 July | Precise Fundamental Properties of the Coldest Brown Dwarfs | M.C. Cushing | 听 |
| Agostino, James | 2025 April | Molecular Gas in Galactic Nuclei and its Role in Supermassive Black Hole Accretion Physics | A. Medling | 听 |
| Federman, Sam | 2024 May | Investigating Protostellar Evolution from the Submillimeter to the Infrared with ALMA and JWST | 听 | |
| Atnagulov, Prabhani | 2024 January | A Hubble Study of the Evolution of Multiple Star Systems in Star-Forming Regions in Orion | 听 | |
| Johnston, Victor | 2023 November | Breaking Diagnostic Degeneracies in the Era of Spatially Resolved Galaxies | A. Medling | 听 |
| Ashish Mishra | 2022 July | Theory and Modeling of Expolanet Polarimetry | J. E. Bjorkman | 听 |
| Habel, Nolan | 2022 July | A Hubble Space Telescope Study of Protostellar Outflows | 听 | |
| Thomas Shao-Yu Lai | 2021 May | Exploring Small Dust Grains Across Different Galaxy Environments | J.D. Smith | Researcher at IPAC, Caltech |
| Zakri, Wafa | 2020 August | A Search for Large Amplitude Variability in the Orion Molecular Clouds | Faculty at Jazan University | |
| Oswald, Wayne | 2020 August | An Assessment of Brown Dwarf Atmospheric Models Using Benchmark Brown Dwarfs | M.C. Cushing | Director of Instructional Labs at Ohio University in Athens, OH |
| Greco, Jennifer | 2020 August | Two Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Ultracool Dwarfs: A Proper Motion Survey Follow-Up and A High-Resolution Investigation | M.C. Cushing | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Uppsala University, Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies |
| Gullingsrud, Allison | 2020 July | The Structure of Classical Be Star Decretion Disks | J. E. Bjorkman | 听 |
| Karnath, Nicole | 2019 | The Transition Points in Young Star and Young Star Cluster Evolution | Instrument Scientist for SOFIA | |
| Trucks, Jesica | August 2019 | The Search for Variability in Y Dwarfs: A Spitzer Space Telescope Program | M.C. Cushing | 听 |
| Mazur, Brian | 2018 | A Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of Orion: From OB1b to Binaries | Faculty at Fort Lewis College in Colorado | |
| Rice, Johnathan | December 2018 | The Transition from Diffuse to Dense Molecular Clouds | S. R. Federman | 听 |
| Johns Mulia, Paula | December 2018 | A Study of X鈥搑ay Binary Populations in Star-Forming Galaxies | R. Chandar | 听 |
| Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin | 2018 June | M.C. Cushing | Postdoctoral Research Associate, IPAC, Caltech | |
| Booker, Joseph | 2017 August | Characterizing the Role of Feedback and Protostellar Properties in the Orion Molecular Clouds | Software engineer at Eversight | |
| Gerhartz, Cody | 2017 August | Temporal Variations in the Circumstellar Disks of Be Stars from Analysis of Optical and IR Line Profiles | K. S. Bjorkman | Endpoint Support, Social Science Computing Cooperative at University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Heidarian, Negar | 2017 June | A Homologolous Study of Lifetimes and Oscillator Strengths of Ultraviolet Transitions in Singly Ionized Lead, Tin, and Germanium | S. R. Federman | Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Maryland |
| Deady, Michelle | 2016 December | Numerical Simulations of Microturbulence in Hot Stellar Atmospheres | L.S. Anderson- Huang | Lecturer of Physics, Department of Physical Sciences, Lander University |
| Togi, Aditya | 2016 August | Lighting the dark molecular gas and a Bok globule | J.D. Smith | 听
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| Starkey, Carl | 2015 December | A Spatially Resolved Survey of Mid-Infrared Aromatic Features in Nearby Galaxies | J.D. Smith | Research Analytics Specialist, The Ohio State University, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Human Genetics |
| Mulia, Alex | 2015 December | Stellar Populations in Nearby Merging Galaxies | R. Chandar | Data Scientist |
| Simanton, Lesley | 2015 August | Star Cluster Populations in the Spiral Galaxy M101 | R. Chandar | Lecturer and Planetarium Director, University of North Georgia |
| Brown, Justin | 2015 May | Abundance of Chlorine in H2 Poor Diffuse Interstellar Clouds (Masters Thesis) | S. R. Federman | 听 |
| Allen, Tom | 2014 August | A Multi-Wavelength Survey of the Young Cluster Cep OB3b | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lowell Observatory | |
| Lark, Adam | 2014 August | L.S. Anderson- Huang | ||
| Davidson, James | 2013 May | K. S. Bjorkman |
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| Corliss, David | 2012 December | N. Morrison | Lead and Manager, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Data Science Center of Excellence; Founder and Director, | |
| Kwon, Do Hyoung | 2012 December | Studies of Sputtered CdTe and CdSe Solar Cells | A. Compaan | 听 |
| Rangelov, Blagoy | 2012 August | R. Chandar | ||
| Poteet, Charles | 2012 August | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Space Telescope Science Institute | ||
| Thomas, Joshua | 2012 May | J. Bjorkman | and Director of Reynolds Observatory, Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY) | |
| Kryukova, Erin | 2011 December | |||
| Rush, Bradley | 2011 December | 听(Master's Thesis) | K. S. Bjorkman | Spitz, Inc. |
| Nero, David J. | 2010 August | J. Bjorkman | Lecturer, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Pittsburgh | |
| Rety, Stephanie | 2010 August | 听(Master's Thesis) | J. Bjorkman | IT and Cybersecurity Professional, Bowling Green State University |
| Thompson, Greg | 2009 August | N. D. Morrison | ||
| Hesselbach, Erica | 2009 August | K. S. Bjorkman | Notre Dame/Saint Mary鈥檚 Clare Boothe Luce Postdoctoral Instructor in Physics, Notre Dame, IN | |
| Ritchey, Adam | 2009 August | S. R. Federman | Eureka Scientific | |
| Davidson, Robert | 2009 August | The Behavior of PAHs in the Presence of Jets and AGN in NGC 4258 (Masters Thesis) | J.D. Smith | Teacher, Bullitt Advanced Math and Science Program |
| Horne, David | 2007 May | L. S. Anderson & P. B. James | Head Observational Research Astronomer, New York Center for Astrobiology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
| Benson, Jennifer | 2006 December | P. B. James | Postdoc, MCS instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | |
| Wisniewski, John | 2005 December | K. S. Bjorkman | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, U. of Washington | |
| Bonev, Boncho | 2005 December | P. B. James & | Research Associate, Department of Physics, (Washington, DC) | |
| Vijh, Uma | 2005 August | A. N. Witt | Research Assistant Professor, U. Toledo | |
| Mihaylov, Ivaylo | 2003 December | Monte Carlo Radiation Hydrodynamics in the Winds of Massive Stars | J. Bjorkman | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Rhode Island Hospital/Brown Medical Center (Providence, RI) |
| Pan, Kaike | 2002 December | S. R. Federman | Senior Observing Scientist, Apache Point Obs. (Sloan Digital Sky Survey II) | |
| Knauth, David | 2001 December | S. R. Federman | Physics and Astronomy teacher at Franklin High School, Baltimore County Public Schools, Baltimore, MD | |
| Cantor, Bruce | 2000 May | P. B. James | Malin Space Science Systems (San Diego, CA) | |
| Zsarg贸, J谩nos | 2000 December | S. R. Federman | , Escuela Superior de Fisica y Matematicas, C.P. 07738, Mexico, D. F., Mexico Email: jzsargo @ esfm.ipn.mx |
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| Smith, Tracy | 2000 August | A. N. Witt | Space Science Institute-Columbus (Columbus, OH) | |
| Gordon, Karl | 1997 August | A. N. Witt |