Alumni
There are many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows mentored by Lars Hernquist who went on to long-term positions in Astrophysics.
There are many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows mentored by Lars Hernquist who went on to long-term positions in Astrophysics.
First Name and Last Name |
Graduation Year |
Current Affiliation (as of 2023) |
| Ana Maria Delgado | 2024 | PostDoc at Johns Hopkins University |
| Angus (Gus) Beane | 2025 | Junior Fellow with the Simons Society of Fellows in New York City |
| Anthony Aguirre | 2000 | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Brant Robertson | 2006 | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Chris Hayward | 2011 | Flatiron Institute |
| Claude-André Faucher-Giguère | 2010 | Northwestern University |
| Diego Muñoz | 2013 | Northwestern University |
| Dylan Nelson | 2015 | University of Heidelberg |
| Greg Snyder | 2013 | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Gurtina Besla | 2011 | University of Arizona |
| Jeremy Heyl | 1998 (UCSC) | University of British Columbia |
| Kathryn Johnston | 1996 (UCSC) | Columbia University |
| Luke Kelley | 2018 | Northwestern University |
| Magdalena Siwek | 2024 | Junior Fellow with the Simons Society of Fellows in New York City |
| Matt McQuinn | 2009 | University of Washington |
| Melinda Weil | 1995 (UCSC) | City College of San Francisco |
| Neal Katz | 1989 (Princeton) | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Paul Torrey | 2014 | University of Virginia |
| Phil Hopkins | 2008 | California Institute of Technology |
| Philip Mocz | 2017 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Romeel Davé | 1998 (UCSC) | University of Edinburgh |
| Sarah Wellons | 2017 | Wesleyan University |
| Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez | 2016 | Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
First Name and Last Name |
Current Affiliation (as of 2023) |
| Aaron Smith | The University of Dallas at Austin |
| Adam Lidz | University of Pennsylvania |
| Anna Rosen | San Diego State University |
| Annalisa Pillepich | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
| Benedikt Diemer | University of Maryland |
| Blakesley Burkhart | Rutgers University |
| Chris Mihos (UCSC) | Case Western Reserve University |
| Debora Šijački | Cambridge University |
| Desika Narayanan | University of Florida |
| Dusan Keres | University of California San Diego |
| Elena D'Onghia | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Erica Nelson | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Federico Marinacci | Università di Bologna |
| Hy Trac | Carnegie Mellon University |
| James Bullock | University of California, Irvine |
| John Forbes | University of Canterbury |
| Ken Nagamine | Osaka University |
| Laura Blecha | University of Florida |
| Laura Sales | University of California Riverside |
| Mark Vogelsberger | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Matthew Smith | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
| Naoki Yoshida | University of Tokyo |
| Rahul Kannan | York University |
| Rainer Weinberger | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam |
| Rosalba Perna | Stony Brook University |
| Rupert Croft | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Sandro Tachella | University of Cambridge |
| Shy Genel | Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute |
| Simeon Bird | University of California Riverside |
| Sownak Bose | Durham University |
| Steinn Sigurdsson | The Pennsylvania State University |
| Steve Furlanetto | University of California Los Angeles |
| Sukanya Chakrabarti | University of Alabama |
| Tiziana Di Matteo | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tom Abel | Stanford University |
| Volker Bromm | University of Texas |
| Volker Springel | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| Yuexing Li | The Pennsylvania State University |