Alumni

Post-Doctoral Scientists

• Massimo Capasso - Post-doctoral research scientist (2020-2022). Currently Research and Development Engineer, Broadcom Inc, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
• Qi Feng - Post-doctoral research scientist (2018-2022). Currently Astrophysicist at SAO/CfA.
• Marcos Santander - Post-doctoral research scientist (2014-2017). Currently Faculty at the University of Alabama.
• Manel Errando - Post-doctoral research scientist (2009-2015). Currently Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.
• Ester Aliu - Post-doctoral research scientist (2009-2014). University of Barcelona (UAB).
• David Garofalo - Research Scientist, Columbia Frontiers of Science Fellow (2013). Currently at Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA.
• Pascal Fortin - Post-doctoral research scientist (2005-2008). Currently Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory Manager, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Tucson, AZ.

Graduate Students

• Deivid Ribeiro (2022, Mentor: Prof. Brian Humensky). Postdoc at the University of Minnesota.
• Ari Brill (2021). NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA GSFC. 
• Ori Weiner (2017).
• Gunes Senturk (2013). Skidmore College, NY. Currently, Data Scientist, Maryland.

Undergraduate Students

We list our alumni over the years and their next step after Barnard. We always like to hear back from our Alumni. Please get in touch with us and let us know where you are.

Alumni from the VERITAS-CTA Nevis REU program are listed here

• Pablo Drake - Columbia undergraduate (2023). Master in Astrophysics and Space Science, coordinated by Università Tor Vergata in Rome. 
• Laurel Carpenter - Barnard undergraduate (2023). TEMPO program, Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge.
• Daniela Hikari Yano -  Barnard undergraduate (2023). Rice University Physics Ph.D. Program. 
• Isabella Guilherme - Columbia undergraduate (2022). Caltech Physics Ph.D. Program. 
• Gwen La Plante - Barnard undergraduate (2022). Blue Marble Space Young Scientist Program. 
• Pazit Rabinowitz - Barnard undergraduate (2019). Washington University, St. Louis Physics Ph.D. Program. 
• Kathryn Brady - Barnard undergraduate (2019).
• Bryan Kim - Columbia undergraduate (2018). Stanford University.
• Miriam Ramirez - Barnard undergraduate (2017).
• Meera Desai - Barnard undergraduate (2017). Currently AMNH Helen Fellow.
• Sharleen Price - Barnard undergraduate (2016-2017).
• Yuyang Zhou - Columbia undergraduate (2016). UCLA graduate program.
• Ava Ghadimi - Nevis Labs REU CCNY (2016). University of Alabama graduate program.
• Hannah Seymour - Barnard undergraduate (2015-2016). George Washington University graduate program.
• Giuliana Noto - Barnard undergraduate (2015-2016). Leadership Development Analyst.
• Richard Nederlander - Columbia undergraduate. I. Rabi Scholar. (2015-2016). Vanderbilt University graduate program.
• Isabella Ilari - Barnard undergraduate (2015). George Washington University graduate program.
• Alyssa Zajan - Barnard undergraduate (2014-2015). Cooperstown graduate program. Museum studies.
• Johnathan Kuan - Columbia undergraduate (2013-2015). Cornell University graduate program.
• Yuexia Lin - Barnard undergraduate (2013-2014). Applied Math Harvard University graduate program.
• Raspberry Simpson - Columbia undergraduate (2012-2014). Currently at Los Alamos National Lab.
• Andrea Egan - Barnard undergraduate (2011-2013). NSF GRFP at University of Boulder, Colorado
• Andrew Loo - Columbia undergraduate (2010-2013). Currently, analyst at DIA Associates.
• Flo Doval - Barnard undergraduate (2012). University of Utah graduate program.
• Gladys Velez Caicedo - Barnard undergraduate (2012).
• Erin Kara - Barnard undergraduate (2008-2011). Gates scholar, University of Cambridge. Currently Assistant Professor, MIT.
• Jed Schmidt - Columbia undergraduate (2011). Currently graduate student in Physics, UCLA, CA.
• Anne Norrick - Barnard undergraduate (2008-2010). Currently at Fermi National Lab.
• Naureen Akhter - Barnard undergraduate (2006-2008).
• Dana Stern - Barnard undergraduate (1999-2001). Currently CEO Scherzi Systems.
• Vanessa Yuille - Barnard undergraduate (1999-2000). Currently independent film director.

High School Students

• Deepta Gupta - MIT (2021) 
• Adam Oppenheimer - Chicago University (2021)
• Milutin Gjaja - Chicago University (2019)
• Chrysmine Wong - Columbia University SEAS (2018)
• Julia Caldropoli - Cornell University (2018)
• Dominick Fulgieri - Columbia University (2012)
• Kyle Misquitta - Columbia University (2012)