Selected MIT PhDs with Astrophysics Supervisors
Name | PhD year | Current position |
David Shoemaker
| 1980 | Head, MIT LIGO Group |
Gerard Kriss | 1982 | Assoc. Astronomer, STScI |
Lynn Cominsky
| 1982 | Prof., Sonoma State U. |
Mark Halpern
| 1983 | Asoc. Prof., U. British Columbia |
Charles Bennett
| 1984 | Infrared Astrophysics Head, Goddard Space Flight Center |
Mark Schattenburg | 1984 | Director, MIT Space Nanotechnology Lab |
Fulvio Melia
| 1985 | Prof., U. Arizona |
Jacqueline Hewitt
| 1986 | Prof. and CSR Director, MIT |
Gerard Luppino
| 1989 | Astronomer, U. Hawaii |
Lyman Page
| 1989 | Prof., Princeton U. |
Philipp Podsiadlowski
| 1989 | Tutor, Oxford U. |
Nelson Christensen
| 1990 | Assoc. Prof., Carelton College |
Edward Ajhar
| 1992 | Lecturer, U. Miami |
Chung-Pei Ma
| 1993 | Assoc. Prof., U.C. Berkeley |
Eugene Magnier
| 1993 | CFHT Support Astronomer |
Bhuvnesh Jain
| 1994 | Asst. Prof., U. Pennsylvannia |
David Buote | 1995 | Asst. Prof., U.C. Irvine |
Joseph Giaime
| 1995 | Asst. Prof., Louisiana State U. |
Uros Seljak
| 1995 | Asst. Prof., Princeton U. |
Lam Hui
| 1996 | Tenured staff, Fermilab |
Rennan Barkana
| 1997 | Asst. Prof., Tel Aviv U. |
Brett Bochner
| 1997 | Asst. Prof., Hofstra U. |
Deborah Haarsma
| 1997 | Asst. Prof., Calvin College |
Nergis Mavalvala
| 1997 | Asst. Prof., MIT |
Matias Zaldarriaga
| 1998 | Assoc. Prof., New York University and Harvard U. |