Last 10 years of OSU Astronomy PhDs

This is a list of all Ph.D.'s awarded in the past 10 years by the OSU Astronomy Department. 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 in Astronomy.

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

2008

Christopher Morgan, Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation: Quasar Structure from Microlensing in Gravitationally Lensed Quasars [1.6M PDF]

Adviser: C. Kochanek

First Post-Graduate Position: Assistant Professor, Physics Department, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis MD.

Jiang Guangfei, Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation: Dark and Luminous Matter in Galaxies and Large Scale Structure. [2.3M PDF]

Adviser: D. Weinberg

Deokkeun An, Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation: Improving the Local Distance Scale from Empirically Calibrated Stellar Isochrones. [18M PDF]

Adviser: D. Terndrup

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech IPAC

Stephan Frank, Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation: OVI Absorbers in SDSS Spectra [1.9M PDF]

Adviser: S. Mathur

First Post-Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Observatoire de Marseilles, France

2007

Jaiul Yoo, Ph.D. 2007

Dissertation: From Galaxy Clustering to Dark Matter Clustering [1.9M PDF]

Adviser: D. Weinberg

First Post-Graduate Position: Menzel Fellow, Harvard CfA

Joshua Pepper, Ph.D. 2007

Dissertation: KELT: The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope [13M PDF]

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 [3.2M PDF]

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 [2.8M PDF]

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 [32M PDF]

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 [2.2M PDF]

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.