Post-docs and Students of Cliff: Past and Present

Postdocs Year Present position
Erast Gliner 1982-1985 Deceased, November 2021 (obituary)
Toshifumi Futamase 1985-1987 Professor Emeritus, Tohoku U, Japan; Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan
David Garfinkle 1985-1987 Distinguished Professor of Physics, Oakland U, MI, USA
H. Edward Seidel 1987-1989 President, University of Wyoming
Ian Redmount 1989-1991 Associate Professor of Physics, St. Louis U
Adrian Burd 1991-1992 Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, U of Georgia
Michael Reisenberger 1992-1994 Adjunct Professor, U de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Eric Poisson 1994-1995 Professor of Physics, U of Guelph, Canada
Nils Andersson 1995-1997 Professor of Applied Mathematics, U of Southampton, UK
Hisa-aki Shinkai 1996-1999 Professor, Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Achamveedu Gopakumar 1999-2001 Professor, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Yasushi Mino 2001-2003  
Emanuele Berti 2003-2007 Professor of Physics, John Hopkins University
Adamantios Stavridis 2007-2009 Post-doc, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Golm, Germany
K. G. Arun 2009-2010 Professor and Swarnajayanti Fellow, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India
Ryan Lang 2011-2014 Academic Staff, Concourse, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anna Heffernan 2014 - 2016 Post-doc, University of the Belearic Islands
Graduate Students Year of PhD Present Position
Mark Haugan (Stanford) 1978 Associate Professor of Physics Emeritus, Purdue U
A. Gordon Smith (Stanford) 1979 Senior Software Engineer (retired), Adobe Systems
Timothy Krisher 1985  
Sai Iyer 1987 Supervisor, Scientific Computing, Washington University Physics Department
Craig Lincoln 1990 Adjunct Instructor in Physics, Washington University
Helmut Zaglauer 1990 Advanced Systems Architect, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany
James W. Guinn 1990 Associate Professor, Physical Science, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston
Alan Wiseman 1992 Associate Professor and Chair of Physics, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Larry Kidder 1994  Research Scientist, Astronomy, Cornell University
Liliana Simone 1996   
Thomas Mitchell 2006 Synthetic Aperture Radar Scientist, ICEYE, St. Louis
Han Wang 2007 Chief Economist, Managing Director, Industrial Securities Co, Shanghai China
Jing Zeng 2008 Post-doc, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
James Shifflett 2008 Engineer-Scientist, The Boeing Company, St. Louis
Saeed Mirshekari 2013 Data Scientist, Mastercard, St. Louis, MO; Founder & Director, O'Fallon Labs, O'Fallon MO
Laleh Sadeghian 2013

Senior Product Manager, Amazon Music, Palo Alto

Alexandria Tucker 2022 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe, University of Illinois
Fatemeh Taherasghari   Graduate Student, University of Florida
Landen Conway   Graduate Student, University of Florida
Undergraduate Students Year Present Position
Joshua A. Frieman 1981 Professor and Chair, Astronomy and Astrophysics, U of Chicago
Paul Scharre 2001-2002 Vice President, Center for a New American Security
Thierry Mora 2002

Directeur de Recherche, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Nicolás Yunes 2003-2004 Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana; Director, Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe
Emmanuelle Gouillart 2003 Scientific Director, Saint-Gobain Research, Paris
Pierre Fromholz 2013 Post-doc, University of Basel, Switzerland
Matthew Maitra 2016 Post-doc, Earth & Planetary Magnetism Group, ETH Zurich