Past & Present CfA Fellows
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| Year | CfA Fellow | Ph.D. Institution | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
1974 | Margaret Geller | Princeton University | Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| John Hearnshaw | Australian National University | Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury | |
| Satoshi Hinata | University of Illinois | Professor Emeritus of Physics, Auburn University | |
| Christine Jones | Harvard University | Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
| Chii-Dong Lin | University of Chicago | University Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, Kansas State University | |
| Fredrick Seguin | California Institute of Technology | Senior Research Scientist, Plasma Science, and Fusion Center, MIT | |
| 1975 | Thomas Ayres | University of Colorado | Senior Research Associate, CASA, University of Colorado |
| Charles Lada | Harvard University | Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
| Mark Reid | California Institute of Technology | Senior Radio Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
| 1976 | Michael Fall | Cambridge University | Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute |
| John Huchra | California Institute of Technology | Before his death in 2010, Dr. Huchra was the Vice Provost for Research Policy at Harvard University and a Professor of Astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | |
| Alan Levine | MIT | Principal Research Scientist, Center for Space Research, MIT | |
| 1977 | Bruce Draine | Cornell University | Professor, Department of Astrophysical Science, Princeton University |
| Wendy Hagen-Bauer | University of Hawaii | Professor Emerita of Astronomy, Wellesley College | |
| Keith MacGregor | MIT | Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research/High Altitude Observatory | |
| Peter Vitello | Cornell University | Scientist, Livermore National Laboratory | |
| Deborah Watson | Harvard University | Professor Emerita of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma | |
| 1978 | Haldan Cohn | Princeton University | Professor, Department of Astronomy, Indiana University |
| Reinhard Genzel | University of Bonn | Director, Max Planck Institute fur Astrophysik, Germany, Honorary Professor of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and Full Professor in the Physics Department of the University of California, Berkeley | |
| Aubrey Haschik | MIT | Retired, Haystack Observatory | |
| 1979 | Steve Kent | California Institute of Technology | Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics; and the College, The University of Chicago |
| R. Knight | University of California, Berkeley | Position not known | |
| R. London | Livermore Laboratory | Position not known | |
| 1980 | Mark Giampapa | University of Arizona | Astronomer, Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona |
| Steve Kahn | University of California, Berkeley | Physics Professor, Stanford University | |
| 1981 | Greg Bothun | University of Washington | Physics Professor, University of Oregon |
| David Cooper | Oxford University | Reader in Physical Chemistry, University of Liverpool | |
| Keith Olive | University of Chicago | Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota and Director, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute and Member, Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics | |
| 1982 | Graeme Smith | Australian National University | Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Observatories/Lick |
| John Stauffer | University of California, Berkeley | System Scientist, SIRTF Science Center, California Institute of Technology | |
| Allan Wirth | University of Illinois | Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Labs | |
| 1983 | Margaret Graff | University of Oregon | CFP(R), American Express Financial Advisors |
| Scott Kenyon | University of Illinois | Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
| Robert Mathieu | University of California, Berkeley | Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 1984 | Eric Bloemhof | University of California, Berkeley | Program Director, National Science Foundation |
| Jack Hughes | Columbia University | Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University | |
| Jean Turner | University of California, Berkeley | Professor and Chair, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCLA | |
| 1985 | Luis Aguilar-Chiu | University of California, Berkeley | Scientist, Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Insituto de Astronomia Ensenada |
| John Biretta | California Institute of Technology | Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute | |
| Larry Molnar | Harvard University | Professor, Observatory Director, Calvin College, Michigan | |
| 1986 | Keith Arnaud | Cambridge University | Associate Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland |
| Valerie deLapparent-Gurriet | University de Paris | Scientist, Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris | |
| D. John Hillier | Australian National University | Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh | |
| 1987 | Patrick Hartigan | University of Arizona | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University |
| Barbara Ryden | Princeton University | Professor, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University | |
| Steven Saar | University of Colorado | Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
| 1988 | Fred Adams | University of California, Berkeley | Professor of Physics, University of Michigan |
| Michael Rupen | Princeton University | Scientist, NRAO | |
| Philip Pinto | University of California, Santa Cruz | Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Steward Observatory | |
| 1989 | Christopher Carilli | MIT | Chief Scientist, NRAO |
| Gary Fuller | University of California, Berkeley | Professor of Astrophyics, Jodrell Bank Centre of Astrophysics, University of Manchester | |
| Tadashi Nakajima | California Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor, National Astronomical Observatory, Japan | |
| 1990 | Dahlia Goldwirth Piran | Hebrew University | Position not known, Tel Aviv University |
| BonChul Koo | University of California, Berkeley | Professor, Department of Astronomy, Seoul National University | |
| Jane Luu | MIT | Technical Staff Member, MIT Lincoln Laboratory | |
| Dimitar Sasselov | University of Toronto | Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University | |
| 1991 | John Dubinski | University of Toronto | Adjunct Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto |
| Leandros Perivolaropoulos | Brown University | Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina | |
| Somak Raychaudhury | Cambridge University | Director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India | |
| 1992 | Michael McCarthy | MIT | Yoram Avni Distinguished Research Astronomer and Associate Director of the Atomica and Molecular Physics Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Insu Yi | University of Texas | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | |
| Shude Mao | Princeton University | Chair Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University | |
| 1993 | Susan Huttemeister | Bonn University | Lecturer, Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum |
| Brian Schmidt | Harvard University | Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University | |
| David Wilner | University of California, Berkeley | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Lecturer, Harvard University | |
| 1994 | Brian McLeod | University of Arizona | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Joan Najita | University of California, Berkeley | Astronomer, National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) | |
| Eve Ostriker | University of California, Berkeley | Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University | |
| 1995 | Luis Ho | University of California, Berkeley | Director, University Chair Professor, The Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University |
| Rachel Pildis | University of Michigan | Programmer, Adgooroo, Inc. | |
| Uros Seljak | MIT | Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1996 | W. Neil Brandt | Cambridge University | Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State University |
| Krzysztof Stanek | Princeton University | Professor, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University | |
| Alexey Vikhlinin | Russian Academy of Sciences | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
| 1997 | Wesley Colley | Princeton University | Senior Research Scientist, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis, University of Alabama Huntsville |
| Vasilliki Kalogera | University of Illinois, Urbana | E.O. Haven Professor of Physics and Astronomy, , Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University | |
| Dimitrios Psaltis | University of Illinois, Urbana | Professor, Department of Astronomy and Physics, University of Arizona, Tucsson | |
| 1998 | Aaron Barth | University of California, Berkeley | Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine |
| Kevin Luhman | University of Arizona | Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University | |
| 1999 | Paul Groot | University of Amsterdam | Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| John Monnier | University of California, Berkeley | Professor of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| 2000 | Jason Aufdenberg | Arizona State University | Associate Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
| Anthony Gonzales | University of California, Santa Cruz | Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Florida | |
| Gaitee Hussain | University of St. Andrews | Astronomer, European Southern Observatory | |
| 2001 | Lisa Kewley | Australian National University | Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian |
| Travis Metcalfe | University of Texas, Austin | Senior Research Scientist, White Dwarf Research Corporation | |
| 2002 | Warren Brown | Harvard University | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| 2003 | Irina Novikova | Texas A&M University | Professor, Department of Physics, College of William and Mary |
| 2004 | A CfA Fellowship was not awarded in 2004. | ||
| 2005 | Dawn Erb | California Institute of Technology | Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Adam Bolton | MIT | Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Utah | |
| 2006 | Anil Seth | University of Washington | Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah |
| 2007 | Desika Narayanan | University of Arizona | Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Florida |
| 2008 | A CfA Fellowship was not awarded in 2008. | ||
| 2009 | Hagai Perets | Weizmann Institute of Science | Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Technion, Israel |
| 2010 | Tassos Fragos | Northwestern University | Theoretical and Computational Astrophysicist at the Geneva Observatory of the University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2011 | A CfA Fellowship was not awarded in 2011. | ||
| 2012 | Kyle Crabtree | University of Illinois, Urbana | Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis |
| 2013 | A CfA Fellowship was not awarded in 2013. | ||
| 2015 | Yanjun (George) Zhou | Australian National University | Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| 2016 | A CfA Fellowship was not awarded in 2016. | ||
| 2017 | Sandro Tacchella | ETH Zurich | Assistant Professor, Department of Physics (Cavendish Laboratory), University of Cambridge |
| 2018 | Samuel Hadden | Northwestern University | CITA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics |
| 2018 | Charlotte Mason | University of California, Los Angeles | Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, The Cosmic Dawn Center, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2019 | GyuChul Myeong | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | CfA Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2020 | Evan Bauer | University of California, Santa Barbara | CfA Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2021 | A CfA Fellowship was not awarded in 2021. | ||
| 2022 | Weicheng Zang | Tsinghua University | CfA Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2024 | Danielle Frostig | MIT | CfA Postdoctoral Fellow |