{"id":59,"date":"2026-04-05T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:17:31","slug":"cliffs-students-and-postdocs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/cliffs-students-and-postdocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff’s Students and Postdocs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cliff’s Students and Postdocs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Postdocs<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nYear<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nPresent position<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Erast Gliner<\/span><\/td>\n1982-1985<\/span><\/td>\nDeceased, November 2021 (obituary<\/a>)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Toshifumi Futamase<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n1985-1987<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor Emeritus, Tohoku U, Japan; Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Garfinkle<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n1985-1987<\/span><\/td>\nDistinguished Professor of Physics, Oakland U, MI, USA<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
H. Edward Seidel<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n1987-1989<\/span><\/td>\nPresident, University of Wyoming<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ian Redmount<\/a><\/td>\n1989-1991<\/span><\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Physics, St. Louis U<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adrian Burd<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n1991-1992<\/span><\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Marine Sciences, U of Georgia<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Reisenberger<\/span><\/td>\n1992-1994<\/span><\/td>\nAdjunct Professor, U de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eric Poisson<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n1994-1995<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor of Physics, U of Guelph, Canada<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nils Andersson<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n1995-1997<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor of Applied Mathematics, U of Southampton, UK<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hisa-aki Shinkai<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n1996-1999<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor, Information Science & Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Achamveedu Gopakumar<\/a><\/td>\n1999-2001<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yasushi Mino<\/span><\/td>\n2001-2003<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emanuele Berti<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n2003-2007<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor of Physics, John Hopkins University<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adamantios Stavridis<\/span><\/td>\n2007-2009<\/span><\/td>\nResearcher, Information Technologies Institute, Center of Research & Technology – Hellas, Greece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
K. G. Arun<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n2009-2010<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor and Swarnajayanti Fellow, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ryan Lang<\/a><\/td>\n2011-2014<\/td>\nAcademic Staff, Concourse, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anna Heffernan<\/td>\n2014 – 2016<\/td>\nPost-doc, University of the Belearic Islands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graduate Students<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nYear of PhD<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nPresent Position<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Haugan<\/a> (Stanford)<\/span><\/td>\n1978<\/span><\/td>\nAssociate Professor of Physics Emeritus, Purdue U<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A. Gordon Smith (Stanford)<\/td>\n1979<\/td>\nSenior Software Engineer (retired), Adobe Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timothy Krisher\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1985<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sai Iyer\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1987<\/span><\/td>\nSupervisor, Scientific Computing, Washington University Physics Department<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Craig Lincoln\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1990<\/span><\/td>\nAdjunct Instructor in Physics, Washington University <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Helmut Zaglauer<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1990<\/span><\/td>\nAdvanced Systems Architect, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James W. Guinn\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1990<\/span><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Physical Science, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alan Wiseman<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1992<\/span><\/td>\nAssociate Professor and Chair of Physics, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Larry Kidder<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1994\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nResearch Scientist, Astronomy, Cornell University<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liliana Simone\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n1996\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Mitchell<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2006<\/span><\/td>\nSynthetic Aperture Radar Scientist, ICEYE, St. Louis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Han Wang<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2007<\/span><\/td>\nChief Economist, Managing Director, Industrial Securities Co, Shanghai China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jing Zeng\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2008<\/span><\/td>\nPhysics Teacher, International High School, Shanghai<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Shifflett<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2008<\/span><\/td>\nEngineer-Scientist, The Boeing Company, St. Louis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saeed Mirshekari<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nData Scientist, Mastercard, St. Louis, MO; Founder & Director, O’Fallon Labs, O’Fallon MO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laleh Sadeghian<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nSenior Product Manager, Amazon Music, Palo Alto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexandria Tucker<\/a> (UF)<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\nScientific Director, Physics, AI & Systems Research, Atombeam Technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fatemeh Taherasghari (UF)<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\nVisiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe, University of Illinois<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Landen Conway (UF)<\/td>\n2025<\/td>\nInstructor, Mathematics, Santa Fe College, Gainesville\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Undergraduate Students<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nYear<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nPresent Position<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joshua A. Frieman<\/a> (Stanford)<\/td>\n1981<\/td>\nProfessor and Chair, Astronomy and Astrophysics, U of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Scharre<\/a> \u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2001-2002<\/td>\nVice President, Center for a New American Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thierry Mora<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2002<\/td>\nDirecteur de Recherche, \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicol\u00e1s Yunes<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2003-2004<\/td>\nProfessor of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana; Director, Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emmanuelle Gouillart<\/a>\u00a0(Washington U)<\/span><\/td>\n2003<\/td>\nScientific Director, Saint-Gobain Research, Paris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pierre Fromholz<\/a> (UF)<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nPost-doc, University of Basel, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthew Maitra<\/a> (IAP)<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\nPost-doc, Earth & Planetary Magnetism Group, ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1440,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/cliffmwill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}