KIPAC Alumni

Former Faculty

  • Stefan Funk
    • Full Professor, University of Erlangen, Germany 

Former Postdocs

  • Markus Ackermann
    • Staff Scientist, DESY
  • Marco Ajello
    • Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
  • Marcelo Alvarez
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, CITA
  • Raul Angulo de la Fuente
    • Staff Scientist, Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon
  • Ted Baltz
    • Google
  • Matteo Barnabe
    • DARK/NBIA Fellowship, Dark Cosmology Centre and the Niels Bohr International Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Silvia Bonoli
    • Staff Scientist, Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon
  • Melanie Bowden
    • Private industry
  • Marusa Bradac
    • Associate Professor, UC Davis
  • Rolf Buehler
    • Staff Scientist, DESY
  • Michael Busha
    • Data Scientist, Elastica
  • Daniel Brandt
  • Teddy Cheung
    • NASA/Goddard Fellowship
  • Johann Cohen-Tanugi
    • Physicist, CNRS-UM2
  • Jodi Cooley-Sekula
    • Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University
  • Luigi Costamante
    • Postdoc, Università di Perugia
  • Carlos Cunha
    • Senior Data Scientist, Bosch
  • Peter den Hartog
    • Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer at HAL24K
  • Andres Escala
    • Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile
  • Andrei Frolov
    • Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
  • Steven Fuerst
    • Private industry
  • Stefan Funk
    • Associate Professor, Stanford University
  • Brian Gerke
    • Senior Scientific Engineering Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Jonathan Granot
    • Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire (permanent position)
  • Daniel Green
    • Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
  • Ming Feng Gu
    • Managing Director, Alliance Bernstein
  • Anna Franckowiak
    • Postdoc, DESY/Zeuthen
  • Amy Furniss
    • Assistant Professor, California State University,  East Bay
  • Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo
    • Assistant Professor, University of Montreal
  • Oliver Hahn
  • Professor, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur/Université de Nice
  • Masaaki Hayashida
    • Project Assistant Professor, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo
  • Stephen Healey
    • Project Scientist, Department of Defense
  • Mark Hertzberg
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
  • Stefan Hilbert
    • Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany
  • Wynn Ho
    • Research Fellow, University of Southampton
  • Patrick Ingraham
    • Calibration Hardware Scientist, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
  • Saurabh Jha
    • Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
  • Tobias Jogler
    • Postdoc, Erlangen University
  • Stelios Kazantzidis
    • Long-Term Fellow, Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University
  • Ryan Keisler
    • Physicist, Data Scientist, Descartes Labs
  • Matthew Kerr
    • Office of the Chief Executive Postdoctoral Fellow in the Astronomy & Space Science Division, CSIRO
  • Daniel Kocevski
    • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Goddard Space Flights Center
  • Yu Lu
    • Postdoctoral Researcher,  Carnegie Observatories
  • Maxim Lyutikov
    • Assistant Professor, Purdue University
  • Dmitry Malyshev
    • Research Scientist, University of Erlangen
  • Francesco Massaro
    • Research Associate at Yale University
  • Jonathan McKinney
    • Professor, University of Maryland at College Park
  • Simona Murgia
    • Assistant Professor, University of California at Irvine
  • Krzysztof Nalewajko
    • Tenure-track position, Copernicus Center in Warsaw, Poland
  • Jeff Oishi
    • Research Scientist, American Museum of Natural History, New York
  • David Paneque
    • Tenure-track, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institute)
  • John Peterson
    • Assistant Professor, Purdue University
  • Dmitry Prokhorov
    • Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik
  • David Rapetti
    • DARK Fellowship, Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen
  • Kevin Reil
    • Experimental Physicist, SLAC
  • Masao Sako
    • Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
  • Miguel Sanchez-Conde
    • Postdoc, Stockholm University - Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics
  • Neelima Sehgal
    • Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
  • Aurora Simionescu
    • JAXA International Top Young Fellow, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • Jack Singal
    • Assistant Professor, University of Richmond
  • Sam Skillman
    • Computational Scientist, Descartes Labs, Inc. 
  • Anatoly Spitkovsky
    • Assistant Professor, Princeton University
  • Lukasz Stawarz
    • International Fellow, JAXA/ISAS
    • Assistant Professor, Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University
  • Louis Strigari
    • Assistant Professor, Texas A&M
  • Mutsumi Sugizaki
    • Physicist, RIKEN
  • Takaaki Tanaka
    • Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
  • Luigi Tibaldo
    • Postdoc, Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik,  Heidelberg, Germany
  • Yasunobu Uchiyama
    • Associate Professor, Rikkyo University
  • Justin Vandenbroucke
    • Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
  • Leif Wilden
    • Software Engineer, Google
  • Christopher Williams
    • Associate, Exponent Engineering and Scientific Consulting
  • Nadia Zakamska
    • Assistant Professor, John Hopkins University
  • Weiqun Zhang
    • Postdoc Fellow, New York University

Former Graduate Students

  • Mustafa Amin
    • Kavli Fellow, Cambridge
  • Karl Andersson
    • DigitalRoute, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Douglas Applegate
    • Postdoc,  Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, University of Bonn
  • Keith Bechtol
    • Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at University of Chicago
  • Peter Behroozi
    • Giacconi Fellow at Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Bijan Berenji
    • Postdoc, UC Irvine
  • Aurelien Bouvier
    • Systems Characterization Engineer,  InVisage Technologies, Inc.
  • Chihway Chang
    • Postdoc, ETH Zürich
  • Daniel Chavez-Clemente
    •  Intel, Industrial Robotics
  • Lixin Dai
    • Postodoctoral Researcher, Universidad de Chile/Yale University
  • Alex Drlica-Wagner
    • Schramm Fellow at Fermilab
  • Yvonne Edmonds
    • Engineer, KLA-Tencor
  • Steven Ehlert
    • Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
  • Stephen Healey
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford
  • Niklas Karlsson
    • Risk Analyst, Swedbank Robur
  • Patrick Kelly
    • Postdoc, UC Berkeley
  • Ji-hoon Kim
    • Postdoc Fellow, Caltech
  • Joshua Lande
    • Data Scientist, Twitter
  • Peter Lewis
    • Postodoc, Belle experiment, University of Hawaii
  • Adam Mantz
    • Postdoc, KIPAC
  • Evan Million
    • Postdoc, University of Alabama
  • Warit Mitthumsiri
    • Lecturer, Mahidol University, Thailand
  • Eric Morganson
    • PS1 Data Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  • Stephen Osborne
    • Systems Engineer, KLA-Tencor
  • Kristi Schneck
    • Scientist Music Engagement Research, Pandora
  • Michael Shaw
    • Data Scientist, Agralogics
  • Lance Simms
    • Commissioning Scientist, ALMA Radio Telescope
  • Matthew Turk
    • Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • Adam Van Etten
    • Solutions Architect, Data Tactics Corporation, Washington D.C.
  • Peng Wang
    • High Performance Computing Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA
  • John Wise
    •  Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
  • Ping Wang
    • Software Engineer, Appcelerator
  • Edward Wu
    • Associate Physical Scientist, Rand Corporation
  • Hao-Yi (Heidi) Wu
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, JPL
  • Kimmy Wu
    • Postdoc, BICEP3, UC Berkeley
  • Fen Zhao
    • AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, National Science Foundation
  • Chen Zheng
    • Business Systems Integrator, Google