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Current and Former TA / ITC Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students

The Division of Theoretical Astrophysics and the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at Harvard University is a center for excellence in theoretical astrophysics that integrates conceptual theory and computational modeling. The ITC was established in 2004 and is regarded by many as the most prominent theory center in astrophysics in the world. Former postdoctoral fellows and graduate students have gone on to premier and competitively sought-after positions in astrophysics after completing their research fellowships at the ITC.

Postdoctoral Fellows
Graduate Students

Name	Year of Departure	Current TItle	Current Institution
Sayan Chakraborti	2016	Management Consultant	McKinsey & Company
Cora Dvorkin	2016	Assistant Professor	Harvard University, Dept. of Physics
Yanfei Jiang	2016	Postdoctoral Fellow	Kavli Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Peking University
Lorenzo Sironi	2016	Assistant Professor	Columbia University
Annalisa Pillepich	2015	Postdoctoral Fellow	Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidleberg, Germany
Raffaella Margutti	2015	Assistant Professor	Northwestern University
Cameron McBride	2015	Senior Research Scientist	Truefit Corp.
Michael McCourt	2015	Postdoctoral Fellow	UC Santa Barbara
Thomas Greif	2015	Postdoctoral Fellow
Laura Sales	2015	Assistant Professor	UC, Riverside
Konstantin Batygin	2014	Assistant Professor	Caltech
Simeon Bird	2014	Postdoctoral Fellow	Johns Hopkins University, Kreiger School of Arts & Sciences
Shy Genel	2014	Associate Research Scientist	The Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics
Dan Milisavljevic	2014	Postdoctoral Fellow	Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Smadar Naoz	2014	Assistant Professor	UCLA
Olek Sadowski	2014	Postdoctoral Fellow	M.I.T.
Molly Swanson	2014	Postdoctoral Fellow
Mark Vogelsberger	2014	Assistant Professor	M.I.T.
Tassos Fragos	2013	Postdoctoral Fellow	Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva
Anna Ijjas	2013	Postdoctoral Fellow	Princeton University
Bence Kocsis	2013	Assistant Professor	Eotvos University
Marc Metchnik	2013	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of Arizona
Matthew Walker	2013	Assistant Professor	Carnegie Mellon University
Charlie Conroy	2012	Associate Professor	Harvard University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Elena D'Onghia	2012	Assistant Professor	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anna Frebel	2012	Assistant Professor	M.I.T.
Lijun Gou	2012	Professor	National Astronomical Observatories of China
Patrik Jonsson	2012	Industry	Space-X
Kaitlin Kratter	2012	Assistant Professor	Univ. of Arizona
Stella Offner	2012	Assistant Professor	UMass Amherst
Asaf Pe'er	2012	Professor	University College Cork, Ireland
Hagai Perets	2012	Assistant Professor	Technion, Israel
Darin Raggozine	2012	Assistant Professor	Florida Institute of Technology
Yue Shen	2012	Assistant Professor	University of Illinois
Debora Sijacki	2012	Assistant Professor	University of Cambridge, UK
Svetlin Tassev	2012	Physics Teacher	Braintree High School, MA
Matija Cuk	2011	Research Scientist	SETI Institute
Eric Hallman	2011	Consultant	Ab Initio Software
Mario Juric	2011	Professor	University of Washington
Uri Keshet	2011	Senior Lecturer	Ben-Gurion University
Akshay Kulkarni	2011	Software Developer Engineer	Microsoft, Inc
Jifeng Liu	2011	Principal Astronomer	National Astronomical Observatories of China
Jonathan Pritchard	2011	Senior Lecturer	Imperial College London, England
Yuval Birnboim	2010	Senior Lecturer	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chi Kwan Chan	2010	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of Arizona
Mark Dijkstra	2010	Associate Professor	University of Oslo, Norway
Daniel Fabrycky	2010	Assistant Professor	University of Chicago
Alison Farmer	2010		Industry
Dusan Keres	2010	Assistant Professor	UC San Diego
Ruth Murray - Clay	2010	Assistant Professor	UC Santa Barbara
Desika Narayanan	2010	Assistant Professor	Haverford College
Hiroshi Oda	2010		Chiba University
Alicia Soderberg	2010	Associate Professor	Harvard University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Hy Trac	2010	Assistant Professor	Carnegie Mellon University
Jaiyul Yoo	2010	Assistant Professor	University of Zurich
Daniel Baumann	2009	Assistant Professor	University of Cambridge, UK
Sukanya Chakrabarti	2009	Assistant Professor	Rochester Institute of Technology
Thomas (T.J.) Cox	2009	Data Scientist	Voxer
Gregory Dobler	2009	Assistant Professor	New York University
Adam Lidz	2009	Associate Professor	University of Pennsylvania
David Weldrake	2009		Australia
Amit Yadav	2009	Member, Astrophysics	Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study
Beth Willman	2008	Associate Professor	Haverford College
Niayesh Afshordi	2007	Associate Professor	University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute
Joseph Barranco	2007	Associate Professor	San Francisco State University
Avery Broderick	2007	Assistant Professor	University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute
Eric Ford	2007	Professor	Penn State University
Tommy Grav	2007	Senior Scientist	Planetary Science Institute
Yuexing Li	2007	Assistant Professor	Penn State University
Jonathan McKinney	2007	Assistant Professor	University of Maryland
Yeshe Fenner	2006	Project Officer	Royal Women's Hospital, Murdoch Childrens Res. Inst., Melbourne Australia
Kazunori Kohri	2006	Associate Professor	KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan)
Miguel Morales	2006	Associate Professor	University of Washington
Banibrata Mukhopadhyay	2006	Associate Professor	Indian Institute of Science
Joshua Winn	2006	Associate Professor	M.I.T.
Volker Bromm	2004	Professor	University of Texas, Austin
James Bullock	2004	Professor	UC Irvine
Feng Yuan	2003	Professor and Director of Astrophysics Division	Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Stuart Wyithe	2002	Professor	University of Melbourne
Vassiliki Kalogera	2001	Professor	Northwestern University
Dimitrios Psaltis	2000	Professor	University of Arizona
Woong-Tae Kim	2000	Professor	Seoul National University
Mikhail Medvedev	2000	Professor	University of Kansas
Volker Springel	2000	Professor	Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Ue-Li Pen	1999	Professor	Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Charles Gammie	1998	Professor	University of Illinois
Uros Seljak	1998	Professor	UC Berkeley
Eve Ostriker	1996	Professor	Princeton University
Shude Mao	1995	Professor	Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester
David Clarke	1993	Professor	Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada
B. Scott Gaudi		Professor	Ohio State University
Christopher Kochanek		Professor	Ohio State University
Ravi Pilla			Columbia University
Eric Woods		Visiting Assistant Professor	State University of New York, Albany

Name	Year of Departure	Current TItle	Current Institution
Maria Drout	2016	Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow	Carnegie Observatories
Gregory Green	2016	Postdoctoral Fellow	Stanford University / KIPAC
Gongjie Li	2016	Postdoctoral Fellow	Harvard University
Dylan Nelson	2016	Postdoctoral Fellow	Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Garching
Vicente Rodrigues-Gomez	2016	Postdoctoral Fellows	Space Telescope Science Institute
Yucong Zhu	2016	Quantitative Analyst	D.E.Shaw Group
Nathan Sanders	2014	Senior Director of Quantitative Analysis	Legendary Entertainment
Paul Torrey	2014	Postdoctoral Fellow	MIT
Rebekah Dawson	2013	Assistant Professor	Penn State University
Diego Munoz	2013	Research Associate	Cornell University
Tony Pan	2013	Princial Scientists	Invention Science Fund
Robert Penna	2013	Postdoctoral Fellow	M.I.T.
Gregory Snyder	2013	Postdoctoral Fellow	Space Telescope Science Institute
Nick Stone	2013	Postdoctoral Fellow	Columbia University
Eli Visbal	2013	Postdoctoral Fellow	Columbia University
Gurtina Besla	2012	Assistant Professor	University of Arizona
Laura Blecha	2012	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of Maryland
Chris Hayward	2012	Associate Research Scientist	Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics
Tongyan Lin	2012	Postdoctoral Fellow	Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
Eddie Schlafly	2012	Postdoctoral Fellow	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Meng Su	2012	Postdoctoral Fellow	MIT
Sui Ann Mao	2011	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of Wisconsin - Madison
Robert Marcus	2011	Systems Engineer	Northrup Grumman Corp.
Roman Shcherbakov	2011	Software Engineer	Teradata
Svetlin Tassev	2011	Physics Teacher	Braintree High School, MA
Stephanie Bush	2010	Research Scientist	Industry
Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere	2010	Assistant Professor	Northwestern University
Cesar Fuentes	2010	Assistant Professor	CATA, Universidad de Chile
Joey Munoz	2010	Postdoctoral Fellow	UCSB
Ryan O'Leary	2010	Postdoctoral Fellow	UC Berkeley
Tracey Slatyer	2010	Assistant Professor	M.I.T
Alekandre (Sasha) Tchekhovskoi	2010	Postdoctoral Fellow	UC Berkeley
Miguel de Val Borro	2009	Postdoctoral Fellow	Princeton, HATSouth Survey
Matthew McQuinn	2009	Assistant Professor	University of Washington
Eliza (Miller-Ricci) Kempton	2009	Assistant Professor	Grinnell College
Kaloyan Penev	2009	Associate Research Scholar	Princeton University
Randall Cooper	2008	Data Scientist	Goldman Sachs
Joel Hartman	2008	Associate Research Scholar	Princeton University
Philip Hopkins	2008	Assistant Professor	Caltech
Rebecca Shafee	2008	Postdoctoral Fellow in Genetics	Harvard Medical School
Ryan Hickox	2007	Assistant Professor	Dartmouth College
Oliver Zahn	2007	Executive Director	Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics
Brant Robertson	2006	Associate Professor	University of Arizona
Hannah Jang-Condell	2004	Assistant Professor	University of Wyoming
Feryal Ozel	2002	Professor	University of Arizona
Kristen Menou	1999	Associate Professor	Columbia University
Rosalba Perna	1999	Associate Professor	University of Colorado
Eliot Quataert	1999	Professor, Director	Theoretical Astrophysics Center, UC Berkeley
Ann Esin	1998	Professor, Director	Harvey Mudd College
Rohan Mahadevan	1997	Vice-President	PayPal

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Current and Former TA / ITC Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students

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