Astronomy Graduate Alumni

This is a complete list of PhD alumni whose astronomy theses were advised by members of the astronomy group. The Astronomy & Astrophysics PhD was established as a separate degree in 1995, with the first receipients in 2000; all students before then received a Physics PhD.

 

PhD Alumni

Erica Thygesen 2025 (Rodriguez) 
Justin Grace 2024 (Brown) 
Brandon Barker 2024 (Couch) 
Joshua Shields 2024 (Kerzendorf) 
Jack O'Brien 2024 (Kerzendorf) 
Teresa Panurach 2023 (Strader) 
Adam Kawash 2022 (Chomiuk) 
Michael Pajkos 2022 (Couch) 
Claire Kopenhafer  2022 (O’Shea) 
Forrest Glines 2022 (O’Shea) 
Laura Shishkovsky 2022 (Strader) 
Carl Fields 2021 (Couch) 
Rachel (Salmon) Frisbie 2020 (Donahue) 
Dana Koeppe 2020 (Donahue) 
Sam Swihart 2020 (Strader) 
Kristen Dage 2020 (Zepf) 
Kelsey Funkhouser 2019 (Donahue) 
Alex Deibel 2017 (Brown) 
Tom Finzell 2017 (Chomiuk) 
Tom Connor 2016 (Donahue) 
Brian Crosby 2016 (O’Shea) 
Greg Meece 2016 (O’Shea) 
Tom Hettinger 2015 (Strader) 
Chris Richardson 2013 (Baldwin) 
Aaron Hoffer 2013 (Donahue) 
Carolyn Peruta 2013 (O’Shea) 
Charles Kuehn 2012 (Smith) 
David Ventimiglia 2012 (Voit) 
Matthew Steele 2012 (Zepf) 
Jason Smolinski 2011 (Beers) 
Catherine Kennedy 2011 (Beers) 
Neelam Dhanda 2010 (Baldwin) 
Eric Pellegrini 2009 (Baldwin) 
Young Sung Lee 2008 (Beers) 
Ken Cavagnolo 2008 (Donahue) 
Nathan DeLee 2008 (Smith) 
Aaron LaCluyze 2008 (Baldwin)
Brian Marsteller 2007 (Beers)
Chris Waters 2007 (Zepf)
Michelle Oullette 2005 (Schatz)
Karen Kinemuchi 2004 (Smith)
Regner Trampedach 2004 (Stein)
Brian Sharpee 2003 (Baldwin)
Dali Giorgobiani 2003 (Stein)
Michael Davis 2002 (Loh)
David Bercik 2002 (Stein)
Lamya Saleh 2001 (Beers)
Jaehyon Rhee 2000 (Beers)
Barton Pritzl 2000 (Smith)
Bill Abbett 1998 (Stein)
Jeff Kriessler 1997 (Beers)
Ron Wilhelm 1995 (Beers)
Nancy Silbermann 1994 (Smith)
Xania Scheick 1993 (Kuhn)
Hao-Sheng Lin 1992 (Kuhn)
Thom Espinola 1988 (Stein)
James Hoffer 1983 (Hills)
Felix Marti 1977 (Noerdlinger)
Deanne Proctor 1971 (Linnell)
Lawrence Turner 1971 (Zimmermann)

 

MS Alumni

This is a list of students who left the Astronony & Astrophysics program after completing their MS degrees, beginning with the entering class of 2002.

Sona Chitchyan 2023
Hailey Moore 2023
CJ Llorente 2022
Katie Bowen 2022
Eric Britt 2021
Jennifer Ranta 2020
Jessica (Maldonado) Alatorre 2018
Danny Huizenga 2017
Austin Edmister 2017
Ryan Connolly 2015
Malanka Riabokin 2012
Jennifer Jones 2010
Evan De Back 2010
Kim Dupczak 2008
Seth Bruch 2008
Angelo Varlotta 2006
Kathleen McElroy 2005
Aparajita Sengupta 2005
Deborah Frank 2005
Ankur Warikoo 2004