We have had many wonderful scientists work in our department as postdocs and researchers over the years. They are listed here, with their current affiliations, in reverse order of when they worked at Princeton. If you have additions or corrections, please email Stephanie Reif at [email protected]
| NAME | START | END | CURRENT INSTITUTION OR COMPANY |
| Andres Plazas Malagon | 2018 | 2022 | SLAC/Stanford |
| Mitsuru Kokubo | 2021 | 2022 | NAOJ |
| Andrina Nicola | 2018 | 2022 | Washington University, St. Louis |
| Chris White | 2020 | 2022 | Flatiron Institute, CCA |
| Meng Gu | 2019 | 2022 | Carnegie Observatories |
| Neven Caplar | 2017 | 2022 | U Washington |
| Kassandra Anderson | 2019 | 2022 | GlobalFoundries |
| Chris Spalding | 2020 | 2022 | Teaching high school physics in Boston area |
| Sarah Millholland | 2020 | 2022 | MIT |
| Allison Strom | 2020 | 2022 | Northwestern |
| Dan Tamayo | 2018 | 2022 | Harvey Mudd |
| Wenbin Lu | 2021 | 2022 | Berkeley |
| Rachael Beaton | 2017 | 2022 | STScI |
| Song Huang | 2019 | 2021 | Tsinghua University |
| Archie Bott | 2019 | 2021 | Oxford University |
| Remy Joseph | 2018 | 2021 | Oskar Klein Center, Stockholm |
| Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro | 2019 | 2021 | Flatiron Institute |
| Jeong-Gyu Kim | 2018 | 2021 | NAOJ/KASI |
| Hiroki Nagakura | 2018 | 2021 | NAOJ |
| Vladimir Zhdankin | 2018 | 2021 | Flatiron Institute |
| Silvio Cerri | 2017 | 2021 | CNRS Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur |
| Alice Pisani | 2017 | 2021 | Cooper Union/Flatiron |
| Jose Zorilla-Matilla | 2020 | 2021 | Columbia University |
| Morgan Schmitz | 2020 | 2021 | University of Nice-Cote d’Azur |
| Philip Mocz | 2017 | 2021 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Patrick Crumley | 2017 | 2020 | Osmos Data |
| Maria Petropoulou | 2017 | 2020 | National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |
| Massimo Gaspari | 2015 | 2020 | INAF Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory |
| Yuran (Alex) Chen | 2017 | 2020 | University of Colorado |
| Daniel Lecoanet | 2019 | 2020 | Northwestern |
| Evan Schneider | 2017 | 2020 | University of Pittsburgh |
| Fred Moolekamp | 2016 | 2020 | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Eric Coughlin | 2019 | 2020 | Syracuse University |
| Kenta Hotokezaka | 2017 | 2020 | RESCEU, University of Tokyo |
| Sean Johnson | 2016 | 2020 | University of Michigan |
| Tomohiro Ono | 2018 | 2020 | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Zhenyu Wang | 2016 | 2020 | Ohio State University |
| Justyna Sokol | 2019 | 2020 | SouthWest Research Institute |
| Johan Samsing | 2014 | 2019 | Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen |
| Yajie Yuan | 2016 | 2019 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Vincent Van Eylen | 2018 | 2019 | University College London |
| Jia Liu | 2016 | 2019 | Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo |
| Peter Melchior | 2015 | 2019 | Princeton University |
| Tim Morton | 2013 | 2019 | University of Southern California |
| Waqas Bhatti | 2012 | 2019 | |
| Elinor Medezinski | 2015 | 2019 | Stealth Mode Startup Company |
| Kento Masuda | 2016 | 2019 | Osaka University |
| Viktoriya Giryanskaya | 2016 | 2019 | Pennsylvania State University |
| David Radice | 2016 | 2019 | Pennsylvania State University |
| Cristobal Sifon | 2016 | 2019 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile |
| Adrian Price-Whelan | 2016 | 2019 | Flatiron Institute |
| Jiming Shi | 2014 | 2019 | Spotify |
| Mat Madhavacheril | 2016 | 2019 | Perimeter University |
| Rahul Kumar | 2015 | 2019 | Queens University |
| Qing Jia | 2015 | 2019 | |
| Illya Plotnikov | 2017 | 2018 | Observatoire Midi-Pyrenee, IRAP, Toulouse, France |
| Pim Schellart | 2016 | 2018 | AMS Software Design Engineer at Apple |
| Yuri Cavecchi | 2016 | 2018 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Yuan-Sen Ting | 2017 | 2018 | Australian National University |
| Merlin Fisher-Levine | 2016 | 2018 | Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
| Nick Battaglia | 2014 | 2018 | The College of Arts & Sciences |
| Bob Armstrong | 2014 | 2018 | Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National |
| Meng Li | 2017 | 2018 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Josh Meyers | 2016 | 2018 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Michael Carr | 1993 | 2018 | University of Massachusetts |
| Vasily Geyko | 2017 | 2018 | Princeton University |
| Tim Stoltzfus-Dueck | 2014 | 2018 | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| Luca Comisso | 2015 | 2017 | Columbia University |
| Ondrej Pejcha | 2013 | 2017 | Charles University, Prague |
| Rachel Bezanson | 2016 | 2017 | University of Pittsburgh |
| Andreas Ritter | 2014 | 2017 | ETH Zurich |
| Penev Kalo | 2011 | 2017 | University of Texas Dallas |
| Jaehong Park | 2013 | 2017 | Purdue University |
| Ido Barth | 2015 | 2017 | University of Jerusalem |
| Manasvi Lingam | 2015 | 2016 | Florida Tech |
| Pallavi Bhat | 2015 | 2016 | ICTS, India |
| Lorenzo Sironi | 2011 | 2016 | Columbia |
| Damiano Caprioli | 2011 | 2016 | University of Chicago |
| Miguel de Val-Borro | 2012 | 2016 | GSFC |
| Zhaohuan Zhu | 2011 | 2016 | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| Arron Skinner | 2013 | 2016 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Erminia Calabrese | 2015 | 2016 | Cardiff University |
| Renee Holzek | 2011 | 2015 | University of Toronto |
| Kengo Tomida | 2012 | 2015 | Tohoku University |
| Taysun Kimm | 2012 | 2015 | Yonsei University, Korea |
| Benoît Cerutti | 2013 | 2015 | CNRS, Grenoble, France |
| Kyle Parfrey | 2012 | 2015 | Trinity College Dublin School of Mathematics |
| Mathew Kunz | 2011 | 2015 | Princeton University |
| Tamas Kovacs | 2015 | 2015 | Konkoly Observatory, Hungary |
| Genevieve Graves | 2012 | 2014 | Eye0, Inc |
| Lorenzo Mercolli | 2012 | 2014 | Swiss Office of Public Health |
| Yoshiki Matsuoka | 2013 | 2014 | Ehime University, Japan |
| Emily Rauscher | 2012 | 2014 | University of Michigan |
| Lucianne Walkowicz | 2011 | 2014 | Adler Planetarium |
| Stephanie Tonnesen | 2010 | 2014 | Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| Joshua Dolence | 2011 | 2014 | Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) |
| Jose Prieto | 2011 | 2014 | Universidad Diego Portales |
| Svetlin Tassev | 2012 | 2014 | Harvard University |
| Jeremy Murphy | 2012 | 2014 | Grant Street Group |
| Naonori Sugiyama | 2012 | 2014 | KAVLI Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) |
| Jeremiah Murphy | 2011 | 2014 | Florida State University |
| Daan Meerburg | 2011 | 2013 | Cambridge University |
| Fabian Schmidt | 2012 | 2013 | Max Planck Institute For Astrophysics (MPA) |
| Markus Janson | 2011 | 2013 | Wallenberg Academy Fellows (Initiated by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in close collaboration with five royal academies and sixteen universities.) |
| Kendrick Smith | 2009 | 2013 | Perimeter Institute,Waterloo Ontario |
| Cullen Blake | 2009 | 2013 | University of Pennsylvania |
| Brian Metzger | 2009 | 2013 | Columbia University |
| Christophe Gissinger | 2009 | 2012 | Laboratoire de Physique Statistique- Department of Physics. Ecole Normale Superieure |
| Neelima Sehgal | 2011 | 2012 | Stony Brook University |
| Dustin Lang | 2009 | 2012 | University of Toronto |
| Steve Bickerton | 2007 | 2012 | Orbital Insight |
| Paul Bode | 1998 | 2012 | |
| Dimitrios Giannios | 2008 | 2012 | Perdue University |
| Madhusudhan Nikku | 2010 | 2012 | University of Cambrodge |
| Greg Novak | 2008 | 2011 | Stitch Fix |
| Michael McElwain | 2007 | 2011 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Chiaki Hikage | 2009 | 2011 | Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe/ KAVLI IPMU |
| Richard Cool | 2008 | 2011 | MMT Observatory |
| Andrei Mesinger | 2008 | 2011 | Scuola Normale Superiore |
| David Spiegel | 2008 | 2011 | Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute, CCA |
| Jason Nordhaus | 2008 | 2011 | National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology |
| John Wise | 2009 | 2011 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Emmanouela Rantsiou | 2009 | 2011 | Neutron Optics |
| Ardis Eliasdottir | 2008 | 2010 | Amazon |
| Beth Reid | 2008 | 2010 | KoBold Metals |
| Mariska Kriek | 2007 | 2010 | University of California, Berkeley |
| Jenny Greene | 2006 | 2010 | Princeton University |
| Toby Marriage | 2006 | 2010 | Johns Hopkins |
| Markus Wetzstein | 2007 | 2010 | Swiss National Supercomuting Center, CSCS |
| Fergal Mullally | 2007 | 2010 | Orbital |
| Caroline Zunckel | 2008 | 2010 | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| Laurent Ibgui | 2008 | 2010 | LERMA /The Observatoire de Paris |
| Sudeep Das | 2008 | 2009 | Netflix |
| Carlos Badenes | 2007 | 2009 | University of Piitsburgh/ Dept. of Physics and Astronomy |
| Viviana Acquaviva | 2007 | 2009 | CUNY NYC College of Technology |
| M.K. Ryan Joung | 2006 | 2009 | Columbia University |
| Dmitri Uzdensky | 2004 | 2009 | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Inese Ivans | 2005 | 2009 | The University of Utah |
| Iro Tasitsiomi | 2005 | 2008 | Director, Artificial Intelligence Labs at BlackRock |
| Yen-ting Lin | 2005 | 2008 | Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA) |
| Amaya Moro-Martin | 2005 | 2008 | Space Telescope Science Institute/The Johns Hopkins University |
| Luc Dessart | 2008 | 2008 | Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille |
| Juna Kollmeier | 2006 | 2008 | Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics |
| Mark Krumholz | 2005 | 2008 | Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics The Australian National University |
| Aristotle Socrates | 2004 | 2008 | Head of Data at TextNow |
| Alicia Soderberg | 2007 | 2008 | Harvard University |
| Edo Berger | 2004 | 2008 | Harvard University |
| Hy Trac | 2004 | 2007 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Todd Thompson | 2005 | 2007 | The Ohio State University |
| Yogesh Wadadekar | 2006 | 2007 | National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune India |
| de Ven Glenn van | 2006 | 2007 | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Michael Brown | 2004 | 2006 | Monash University |
| Andrew Youdin | 2003 | 2006 | The University of Arizona |
| Masamune Oguri | 2004 | 2006 | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Doug Finkbeiner | 2001 | 2006 | Harvard University |
| Robert Crockett | 2005 | 2006 | |
| Tom Gardiner | 2003 | 2006 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Takahiro Sumi | 2002 | 2006 | Osaka University, Japan |
| David Johnson | 2004 | 2005 | |
| Daniel Proga | 2004 | 2005 | University of Nevada |
| Dimitri Pourbaix | 2005 | 2005 | Free University of Brussels |
| Rachel Bean | 2022 | 2005 | Cornell University |
| Brenda Frye | 2001 | 2004 | U Arizona |
| David Schlegel | 1998 | 2004 | Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
| Zeljko Ivezic | 1997 | 2004 | University of Washington |
| Andrew Stevens | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Jonathan Tan | 2001 | 2004 | Chalmers University and University of Virginia |
| Hiranya Peiris | 2003 | 2004 | Oskar Klein Centre of cosmoparticle physics |
| Patrick Hall | 2002 | 2004 | York University |
| Todd Tripp | 1997 | 2003 | University of Massachusetts |
| Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas | 2001 | 2002 | University of Toronto |
| Laurent Eyer | 2000 | 2002 | University of Geneva |
| Kristen Menou | 1999 | 2002 | Columbia University (and also Toronto?) |
| Alin-Daniel Panaitescu | 1999 | 2002 | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Serge Tabachnik | 2000 | 2002 | Lombaird Odier Asset Management |
| Aigen Li | 1999 | 2002 | University of Missouri |
| Bradley Hansen | 1999 | 2002 | UCLA |
| Licia Verde | 2000 | 2001 | Universidad de Barcelona,Instituto de ciencias del Cosmos/University of Oslo/ Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ICREA |
| Fathi Namouni | 1999 | 2000 | UMR LAGRANGE |
| Romeel Dave | 1998 | 2000 | U. Edinburgh |
| Michael Vogeley | 1998 | 2000 | Drexel University |
| Alexander Lazarian | 1995 | 1999 | University of Wisconsin |
| Alexandre Refregier | 1997 | 1999 | ETH Zurich |
| Greg Bryan | 1997 | 1998 | Columbia |
| Michael Richmond | 1992 | 1997 | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Ed Fitzpatrick | 1987 | 1997 | Villanova |
| Mamoru Doi | 1996 | 1997 | University of Tokyo |
| Nick Gnedin | 1994 | 1996 | Fermi Lab/Chicago faculty |
| Ralph Wijers | 1995 | 1995 | U Amsterdam |
| Neil de Grasse Tyson | 1991 | 1994 | American Museum of Natural History |
| Mirt Gramann | 1992 | 1994 | Tartu Observatory, Estonia |
| Puragra Guhathakurta | 1992 | 1994 | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Hyesung Kang | 1993 | 1993 | Pusan National University faculty |
| Dongsu Ryu | 1993 | 1993 | UNIST, Korea |
| K. Joachim Wambsganss | 1990 | 1993 | University Heidelberg |
| Luca Ciotti | 1992 | 1992 | University of Bologna |
| Frank Bertoldi | 1989 | 1992 | University of Bonn |
| Yichuan Pei | 1990 | 1992 | Johns Hopkins University |
| Charles Joseph | 1985 | 1992 | Rutgers |
| Arati Chokshi | 1989 | 1990 | |
| Lars Hernquist | 1990 | 1990 | Harvard |
| Miroslaw Panek | 1988 | 1990 | |
| Stanislaw Bajtlik | 1990 | 1990 | Polish Academy of Sciences Space Research Center |
| Tod Lauer | 1983 | 1990 | NOIRLab |
| Yuzo Fujimoto | 1989 | 1990 | |
| Marc Postman | 1986 | 1989 | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Jacqueline Hewitt | 1988 | 1989 | MIT |
| Douglas Woods | 1987 | 1989 | Marquette University |
| Robert Duncan | 1986 | 1988 | Professor at Oregon State University |
| Andrew Hamilton | 1983 | 1986 | University of Colorado |
| Steve Balbus | 1983 | 1985 | Oxford |
| Chanda Jog | 1982 | 1984 | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| Rajaram Nityananda | 1983 | 1984 | Azim Premji University |
| John Giuliani | 1981 | 1983 | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Ethan Vishniac | 1980 | 1982 | Johns Hopkins University |
| Donald York | 1970 | 1982 | University of Chicago |
| Lennox Cowie | 1976 | 1981 | University of Hawaii |
| Steven Margolis | 1979 | 1980 | IBM |
| John Caldwell | 1972 | 1977 | N/A |
| Morris Podolak | 1975 | 1976 | Tel Aviv University |
| Telemachos Mouschovias | 1975 | 1976 | University of Illinois |
| Larry Smarr | 1974 | 1976 | UC San Diego |
| Donald Morton | 1956 | 1976 | Researcher Emeritus, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics |