Former Graduate Students

Mary Lane completed her Ph.D. in 1981. Since then, she has been working in the private sector in Toronto.
Petrusia Kowalsky finished her M.Sc. in 1983. Since then, she has been teaching high school in Toronto.
Mike Fieldus completed his M.Sc. in 1989. He died in 1992 as he was nearing the end of his Ph.D. working with Tom Bolton.
Dimitar Sasselov completed his Ph.D. in 1990. Since then he has been at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, first on a CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship and then as a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow. Dimitar is now a full professor in the astronomy department at Harvard.
Ian Short finished his Ph.D. in 1995. He first held a Postdoctoral position at Armagh Observatory, Armagh, Northern Ireland, then a postdoctoral position at the University of Georgia working with Peter Hauschildt. He was an assistant professor in the department of physics at Florida Atlantic University, before moving to Saint Mary's University in Halifax. Ian is an associate professor and Chair of the department of astronomy and physics, and a member of the Institute for Computational Astrophysics.
Aaron Sigut completed his M.Sc. in 1991 and his Ph.D. in 1995. After holding an N.S.E.R.C. Postdoctoral Fellowship at the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, and a postdoctoral position in the department of physics and astronomy, University of Western Ontario. Aaron is now an associate professor of astronomy at UWO.
Devon Hamilton completed his Ph.D. in March 2001. He now has the position of senior scientist, physics, at the Ontario Science Centre.
Christopher Tycner completed his M.Sc. in 2000 and his Ph.D. in 2004. From 2004 to 2007 Chris held a Michelson Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, funded by NASA, at the Flagstaff, Arizona station of the U. S. Naval Observatory, where he was a member of the team at the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer. Since July 2007, Chris has been an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Central Michigan University.