Career Paths

Each circle represents one graduate. Complete career histories are indicated. In the last ten years (1994-2004), 28 students from the Departments of Astronomy and Physics have received the PhD working with Astronomy Faculty members. Nine of these are now in permenant or tenure-track faculty positions, two are in tenured positions at national observatories, ten (the more recent graduates) are in post doctoral positions, and seven have left the field, mostly for the computing or financial services industries.

2004

• Post Doc, University of Arizona
• Post Doc, University of Michigan
• Post Doc, University of California, Berkeley
• Post Doc, STScI
• Post Doc, University of Victoria, British Columbia

2003

• Post Doc, University of California, Santa Barbara

2002

• Assistant Professor, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

2001

• None

2000

• Financial Services

1999

• Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon (SDSS)
  Post Doc, University of Virginia
  Chandra Fellow, University of Virginia
  Assistant Professor, Boston University
• Caltech Prize Fellowship
  McKinsey and Company
• Financial Services

1998

• Post Doc, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Munich
  Faculty position, Natal University
• Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
  Post Doc, Oxford University, UK
• Post Doc, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  Research Scientist, Caltech
• Post Doc, Stanford University
  Post Doc, Technion, Haifa, Israel

1997

• Post Doc, Princeton University
  Post Doc, Cambridge University
  Tenured Faculty, Sacalay, Paris
• Assistant Professor, St. John's College, Santa Fe
• Post Doc, Cal Tech
  Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• Post Doc, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  Post Doc, Goddard Space Flight Center

1996

• Financial Services
• Visiting Asst. Prof., Vassar College
  Post Doc (Biology)
• Goldman-Sachs

1995

• Hubble Fellow, University of Hawaii
  Jansky Fellow, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  Tenure-track staff NRAO
  **Winner of the Trumpler Award, given annually for the best Ph.D. Dissertation in North America
• Post Doc, Southampton University, UK
  Post Doc, Rutgers University
  Scientific Staff, US Naval Observatory
• Computing industry
• IGPP Fellow, University of California
  Post Doc, University of California, Berkeley
  Chandra Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
  Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
• Post Doc, University of Florida (Physics)
  Post Doc, Paris
  Lecturer, Dublin
  Assistant Professor, Biosphere2, Columbia University

1994

• Post Doc, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Munich
  Post Doc, Leiden University, Netherlands
  Post Doc, Cambridge, England
  Assistant Professor, St. Andrews University, Scotland

1993

• Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Research Scientist, Columbia University
• Post Doc, Princeton University
  Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University
• Post Doc, Northwestern University
• Post Doc, MIT
  Psychological Services

1992

• Science Editor, Kluwer Publishers
  Publishing Editor, Elsevier Publishers
• Post Doc, NASA Ames Research Center
  Post Doc, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Labs
• Post Doc, Space Telescope Science Institute
  Hubble Fellow, UC Berkeley
  Assistant Professor, Penn State University
  Associate Professor, Penn State University
• Engineering

1991

• Post Doc, Princeton University
  Director, Hayden Planetarium
  Lecturer, Princeton University

1990

• Post Doc, University of Washington, Seattle
  Staff Scientist, Center for EUV Astrophysics, Berkeley
  left field
• Hubble Fellow, University of Colorado
  Lindheimer Fellow, Northwestern University
  Assistant Research Professor, Northwestern University
  Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts
  Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
  **Winner of the Trumpler Award, given annually for the best Ph.D. Dissertation in North America
• Post Doc, SUNY Stony Brook
  Staff Scientist, SUNY Stony Brook
  Research Staff, UCLA

Of the 17 Astronomy Graduates in the preceding twelve years back to 1978, seven now hold tenured faculty or research positions in Astronomy and eight are in other staff-level postions in Astronomy or related fields.