Floor Broekgaarden (Astronomy, PhD, 2023) was awarded the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics by the APS. This award recognizes doctoral thesis in research in astrophysics, and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results. The annual award consists of $1,500 for the recipient, a certificate, registration waiver, and all finalists will receive a travel reimbursement up to $750 in order to present their work in an invited session at the APS April Meeting.
Floor defended her thesis "Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New...
The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will present the Centennial Medal to six distinguished alumni on May 24, 2023, culminating a year of celebration of the School’s 150th anniversary. The Centennial Medal, which recognizes those who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, their disciplines, their colleagues, and society, is the highest honor that the Harvard Griffin GSAS bestows.
Catherine Cesarsky, PhD ’71, Astronomy
Catherine Cesarsky’s trailblazing achievements in astronomy are...
Amber will be heading to the University of Texas at Austin as an Early Career Fellow. This postdoctoral position is unique in that in addition to furthering her research on the radiation environments of low-mass stars, she will also be mentored on how to become an effective teacher and research advisor.
Theron's postdoc plans are to start a research associate position at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland this fall. There he will continue researching transiting brown dwarfs from the TESS mission.
Prof. Blecha earned her PhD at Harvard working with Avi Loeb. She is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Florida where a fair number of recent Harvard graduates have landed including Sarah Ballard, Paul Torrey, Zach Slepian and Stephen Eikenberry.
Since April, PhD alumni Fernando Becerra, How-Huan Chen, and Anjali Tripathi have been working on the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health COVID-19 data and epidemiology team. The group has used their data and visualization skills for a range of projects, including their newly created COVID Watch website. Released for the start of flu season, the site makes data available for tracking COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses across the country's largest county. More at: ... Read more about Recent alumni help government COVID-19 data and epidemiology efforts
Harvard students and post-docs of Prof. John Kovac featured in this Harvard Gazette article with incredible photographs by Samuel Harrison and Hans Beonish.
Pierre Christian (Harvard PhD, 2018) delivers his Keto Award talk at the ITC Luncheon on May 3, 2018 "Detecting gravitational lensing of gravitational waves"
