Last 10 years of OSU Astronomy PhDs

This is a list of all Ph.D.'s awarded since 1997 by the OSU Astronomy Department in reverse chronological order (most recent first). Those graduate alumni who received a terminal M.S. degrees or a thesis M.S. degree are listed separately. The first Ph.D. was awarded in 1955, prior to that OSU only had a Master's program.

Starting in 2002, dissertations were submitted in PDF format. Approved copies of all dissertations starting in 2002 are linked below after the title.

2007

Jaiul Yoo, Ph.D. 2007

Dissertation: From Galaxy Clustering to Dark Matter Clustering

Adviser: D. Weinberg

First Post-Graduate Position: Menzel Fellow, Harvard CfA

Joshua Pepper, Ph.D. 2007

Dissertation: KELT: The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope

Adviser: R. Pogge

First Post-Graduate Position: 5-year VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University.

Misty Bentz, Ph.D. 2007

Dissertation: Black Hole Scaling Relationships: New Results from Reverberation Mapping and Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

Adviser: B.M. Peterson

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Irvine.

Grant Newsham, Ph.D. 2007

Dissertation: The Horizontal Branch as a Probe of Stellar Population History

Adviser: D. Terndrup

2006

Christopher Burke, Ph.D. 2006

Dissertation: Survey For Transiting Extrasolar Planets In Stellar Systems: Stellar and Planetary Content of the Open Cluster NGC 1245 [4.4M PDF]

Adviser: D.L. DePoy

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute.

Juna A. Kollmeier, Ph.D. 2006

Dissertation: The Intergalactic Medium: Absorption, Emission, Disruption

Adviser: D. Weinberg

First Post-Graduate Position: Princeton-Carnegie-Hubble Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington

Current Position: Staf Member, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington

Jennifer Marshall, Ph.D. 2006

Dissertation: Mapping the Local Galactic Halo and An Image Motion Compensation System for the Multi-Object Double Spectrograph [7.9M PDF]

Adviser: D.L. DePoy

First Post-Graduate Position: Carnegie Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington

Rik Williams, Ph.D. 2006

Dissertation: The Warm-Hot Environment of the Milky Way [1.6M PDF]

Adviser: S. Mathur

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leiden

James Pizagno, Ph.D. 2006

Dissertation: The Tully-Fisher Relation, Its Residuals, and a Comparison to Theoretical Predictions for a Broadly Selected Sample of Galaxies [6.0M PDF]

Advisers: D. Weinberg & R. Pogge

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, SUNY Stony Brook

Dale Fields, Ph.D. 2006

Dissertation: Absorption-Line Measurements of AGN Outflows [746k PDF]

Adviser: S. Mathur

First Post-Graduate Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Pierce College

2005

Jeremy Tinker, Ph.D. 2005

Dissertation: Constraining Cosmology with the Halo Occupation Distribution [3.5M PDF]

Adviser: D.H. Weinberg

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago.

Christopher Onken, Ph.D. 2005

Dissertation: Measurement of Black Hole Masses in Active Galactic Nuclei [10M PDF]

Adviser: B.M. Peterson

First Post-Graduate Position: Plaskett Fellow, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, BC.

Julio Chanamé, Ph.D. 2005

Dissertation: Topics of Galactic Structure and Chemical Evolution [3.6M PDF]

Adviser: A. Gould

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute

Franck Delahaye, Ph.D. 2005

Dissertation: From accurate atomic data to elaborate stellar modeling: Structure and collisional data, opacities, radiative accelerations. [4.6M PDF]

Adviser: A. Pradhan

First Post-Graduate Position: Researcher, Observatoire de Paris.

Nikolay Andronov, Ph.D. 2005

Dissertation: Evolution of close binary stars with application to cataclysmic variables and Blue Stragglers. [1.4M PDF]

Adviser: M. Pinsonneault

First Post-Graduate Position: currently living in Russia

2004

Zheng Zheng, Ph.D. 2004

Dissertation: Constraining Galaxy Bias and Cosmology Using Galaxy Clustering Data [5.2M PDF]

Advisor: D.H. Weinberg

First Post-Graduate Position: Hubble Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Susan Kassin, Ph.D. 2004

Dissertation: Luminous and Dark Matter in Bright Spiral Galaxies [2.2M PDF]

Adviser: R.W. Pogge

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz (DEEP2 Team)

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford University

Guo-Xin Chen, Ph.D. 2004

Dissertation: Relativistic Close Coupling Calculations for Fundamental Atomic Processes in Astrophysics [7.8M PDF]

Adviser: A. Pradhan

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

2002

Jin-Hyeok An, Ph.D. 2002

Dissertation: Astrophysics from Binary-lens Microlensing

Adviser: A. Gould

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Astronomy. University of Cambridge, UK.

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT

Samir Salim, Ph.D. 2002

Dissertation: Applications of High-Resolution Astrometry to Galactic Studies [6.5M PDF]

Adviser: A. Gould

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA.

Patrizia Romano, Ph.D. 2002

Dissertation: Multi-Wavelength Study of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies [3M PDF]

Adviser: B.M. Peterson

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy.

2001

Andreas Berlind, Ph.D. 2001

Dissertation: Biased Galaxy Formation and Large Scale Structure

Adviser: D.H. Weinberg

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Andrew Stephens, Ph.D. 2001

Dissertation: The Stellar Populations of Nearby Galaxies

Adviser: J.A. Frogel

First Post-Graduate Position: Princeton/Catolica Fellow, Princeton and Catolica Universities

Current Position: Science Fellow & NIRI Instrument Scientist, Gemini Observatory.

2000

Solange V. Ramírez S., Ph.D. 2000

Dissertation: Stellar Abundances in the Inner Bulge and Galactic Center

Adviser: K. Sellgren

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech

Current Position: Staff Scientist, Caltech, IPAC.

B. Scott Gaudi, Ph.D. 2000

Dissertation: Microlensing and the Search for Extrasolar Planets

Adviser: A. Gould

First Post-Graduate Position: Hubble Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study

Current Position: Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

Paul Martini, Ph.D. 2000

Dissertation: The Structure and Evolution of Galaxies

Adviser: D.L. DePoy

First Post-Graduate Position: Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Observatories

Current Position: Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

Alberto Conti, Ph.D. 2000

Dissertation: Interpreting the Properties of Galaxies

Advisers: B. Ryden & P. Osmer

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pittsburgh

Current Position: Branch Manager for Astronomer Tools and Applications, Space Telescope Science Institute.

1999

Vijay Krishna Narayanan, Ph.D. 1999

Dissertation: Reconstruction Analysis of Galaxy Redshift Surveys

Adviser: D.H. Weinberg

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University

Current Position: Research Scientist, Fair Isaac Corporation, San Diego.

1998

Piotr Popowski, Ph.D. 1998

Dissertation: RR Lyrae Stars as Distance Indicators

Adviser: A. Gould

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Current Position: Consultant, McKinsey & Company.

1997

J. Michael Owen, Ph.D. 1997

Dissertation: Studying Cosmological Structure Formation with Numerical Hydrodynamic Simulations

Adviser: D.H. Weinberg

First & Current Post-Graduate Position: Computational Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Ani Thakar, Ph.D. 1997

Dissertation: A Numerical Study of Counterrotating Disks in Spiral Galaxies

Adviser: B. Ryden

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Johns Hopkins University

Current Position: Research Scientist, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University.

Manuel A. Bautista, Ph.D. 1997

Dissertation: Emission Spectra and Ionization Structure of Iron in Gaseous Nebulae and Partially Ionized Zones.

Adviser: A. Pradhan

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, NASA Goddard

Current Position: Research Associate, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Leslie Kuchinski, Ph.D. 1997

Dissertation: A Study of Attenuation Effects in Highly Inclined Spiral Galaxies

Adviser: D.M. Terndrup

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, IPAC, Caltech

Last Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, IPAC, Caltech. Now living in Braine L'Alleud, Belgium.

Glenn Tiede, Ph.D. 1997

Dissertation: Metallicities, Distances, and Kinematics of the Stellar Populations of the Bulge and Inner Disk of the Milky Way Galaxy

Adviser: D.M. Terndrup

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, NOAO Tucson

Current Position: Instructor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Bowling Green State University

Anita Krishnamurthi, Ph.D. 1997

Dissertation: Angular momentum evolution of low-mass stars

Adviser: M.H. Pinsonneault

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Colorado

Current Position: Outreach Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Mark E. Everett, Ph.D. 1997

Dissertation: A Study of H₂ Excitation in Young Stellar Outflows

Adviser: R.W. Pogge

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Wyoming

Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ.