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Congratulations to Dr. Pitts!

Dr. Rebecca Pitts successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “On Dust, Carbon Monoxide, and Molecular Hydrogen in the Census of High- and Medium-Mass Stars.”  Dr. Pitts will continue her pioneering investigations into star formation and the interstellar medium through a postdoctoral fellowship at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.  Congratulations to Dr. Pitts!

Congratulations to Dr. Grieves!

Dr. Nolan Grieves successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Characterizing Fundamental Properties of Stars and Investigating their Brown Dwarf and Planet Companions.”  Dr. Grieves will continue his field-leading work at the University of Geneva starting in the fall.  Congratulations to Dr. Grieves!

Congratulations to Dr. Dallilar

Dr. Yigit Dallilar successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Infrared Instrumentation and Jet Formation in Black Hole Binaries“.  Dr. Dallilar will now be moving onto a postdoctoral position at the MPE where he will continue his impactful work on Infrared Instrumentation.  Congrats to Dr. Dallilar!

UF Grad joins Ohio State Faculty

Former UF Graduate Student Ji Wang has been hired as an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University.  Ji received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from UF in 2012 with a thesis entitled “Toward Massive Detection of Planets Around M-Dwarfs Using the Radial Velocity Technique” before going on to postdoctoral positions at Yale and Caltech.  Prof. […]