Meet the People at the BHI
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Richard Anantua
BHI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW ALUM; Assistant Professor
UTSA College of Sciences
Astronomy, Physics
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Feraz Azhar
BHI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW ALUM; Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Philosophy
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Mislav Balokovic
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow; YCAA Fellow
Yale University
Astronomy
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Katie Bouman
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Mathematics
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Andrew Alan Chael
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University
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Koushik Chatterjee
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum
Black Hole Initiative
Astronomy
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Hsin-Yu Chen
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; NASA Einstein-MKI Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT
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Shelley Cheng
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Pierce Fellowship Graduate Student
Harvard University
Astronomy
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Paul Chesler
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Physicist
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Pierre Christian
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Assistant Professor of Physics
Fairfield University
Physics
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Jordan Cotler
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Harvard University
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Brandon Curd
BHI Graduate Student Alum
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Laura Donnay
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Fellow in Theoretical High-Energy Physics; Faculty Member
Technical University of Vienna
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Connemara Doran
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Lecturer, History of Science
Harvard University
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Christian Fromm
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Faculty Member, JMU
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg in Germany
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Delilah Gates
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Associate Research Scholar
Princeton University
Physics
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Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum
Harvard University
Mathematics, Physics
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Xinyi Guo
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Software Developer
DE Shaw Research
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Shahar Hadar
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Faculty Member
University of Haifa
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Temple Mu He
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Postdoctoral Researcher
UC Davis
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Elizabeth “Mina” Himwich
BHI Graduate Student Alum
Physics
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Aghil Alaee Kahngha
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Clark University
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Daniel Steven Kapec
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Postdoctoral Scholar at CMSA
Harvard University
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Jordan Keller
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum
Mathematics
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Jue Liu
BHI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW ALUM
Harvard University
Mathematics, Physics
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Yixiang Mao
BHI GRADUATE STUDENT ALUM; Quantitative Researcher
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Mathematics
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Natalie Mashian
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Pomona College
Astronomy, Physics
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Lena Murchikova
BHI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW ALUM; Assistant Professor
CIERA, Northwestern University
Astronomy, Physics
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Kevin Nguyen
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Research Associate
King’s College, London
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Tiffany Nichols
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow and LSST-DA Catalyst Fellow
Princeton University
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Sabrina Pasterski
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Postdoctoral Researcher
Princeton University Center for Theoretical Science
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Monica Pate
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow ALUM; Assistant Professor of Physics
NYU
Physics
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Achilleas Porfyriadis
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Assistant Professor
University of Crete
Physics
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Ana-Maria Raclariu
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Postdoctoral Researcher
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Physics
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Michael Rowan
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Postdoctoral Fellow
NESAP for Simulations, Berkeley
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Yichen Shi
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Postdoctoral Writer
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Peter Smillie
BHI Graduate Student Alum; Barry Bateman Instructor in Mathematics
California Institute of Technology
Mathematics
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Maciek Wielgus
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy
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Kai Xu
BHI Graduate Student Alum
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Max Zimet
BHI Postdoctoral Fellow Alum; Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Oregon
Honorary Affiliate: Stephen Hawking
In Memoriam
Former Honorary Affiliate
Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Physics
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