Ph.D. Alumni:

This page is somewhat out of date, as we have not been updating all the information regularly. However, we are keeping it as a record of our students, and will sporadically update it. If one of the students/postdocs listed here wants to provide updated information, please send it to John Donoghue and he will update it on this page.

Basem El-Menoufi

• Graduation Year: 2016
• Advisor: John Donoghue

Papers

• Now Postdoc at the University of Manchester

Jessica Cook

• Graduation Year: 2013
• Advisor: Lorenzo Sorbo

Papers

• Now Faculty at the Eastern Connecticut State University

Ufuk Aydemir, Webpage, Papers

T.J. Blackburn

• Advisor: Barry Holstein

Jared Vanesse, Webpage, Papers

• Avisor: Barry Holstein

Mohamed Anber

• • Advisor: Lorenzo Sorbo
  • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Frontiers in theoretical high energy physics: From physics beyond the Standard Model to cosmology
  • Graduation Year: 2010

Webpage
Papers

• Now faculty at Lewis and Clark College

Sourya Ray

• Advisor:Jennie Traschen and David Kastor
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: ** Look up**
• Graduation Year: 2006
• Now Faculty at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdevia, Chile

Koushik Dutta

• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Frontiers in gravitational physics
• Graduation Year: 2007
• Now Faculty at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (https://www.iiserkol.ac.in/web/en/)

Andreas Ross

• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Inflationary dynamics and quantum gravity at long distances
• Graduation Year: 2006
• Now in the financial industry

• Moataz H. Emam
• Advisor: David Kastor
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Calibrated brane solutions of M-theory
• Graduation Year: 2004
• Now Associate professor of Physics at State University of New York College at Cortland , USA

• Hyunji Cho
• Advisors: Jennie Traschen & David Kastor
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Topics in gravity and supergravity
• Graduation Year: 2003
• Now Faculty at Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

• Pablo J. Marrero
• Advisor: Eugene Golowich
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: A nonperturbative study of two-dimensional quartic scalar field theory and three-dimensional compact quantum electrodynamics
• Graduation Year: 2001
• Now Faculty at Universidad de Puerto Rico Mayagüez, USA

• Erick A. Roura
• Advisor: Eugene Golowich
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: A non-perturbative study of non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric cubic scalar quantum field theory
• Graduation Year: 2001
• Now Faculty at Universidad de Puerto Rico Mayagüez, USA

• Vincenzo Cirigliano
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: New techniques in nonleptonic weak interactions
• Graduation Year: 2000 (from Università di Pisa)
• Now Staff at Los Alamos National Lab

• Mark D. Windoloski
• Advisor: Eugene Golowich
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: A nonperturbative study of three-dimensional quartic scalar field theory using modal field methods
• Graduation Year: 2000
• Now at Jentek Sensors Inc. in Waltham MA, USA

• Euy Soo Na
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Nonperturbative methods in particle physics
• Graduation Year: 1999
• Now at: ???

• Eswara Prasad Venugopal
• Advisor: Barry Holstein
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Phenomenology of the chiral anomaly
• Graduation Year: 1999
• Now Faculty at University of Detroit Mercy, USA

• Fabrizio Gabbiani
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Rare kaon decays and CP violation
• Graduation Year: 1997
• Now Faculty at Wayne State University, USA

• Thomas R. Hemmert
• Advisor: Barry Holstein
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with light deltas
• Graduation Year: 1997
• Now Postdoc at Technische Universität München, Germany

• Alexey A. Petrov
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• M.S. Thesis Title: Model-independent description of the inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Theory and phenomenology of non-leptonic heavy meson decay
• Graduation Year: 1997
• Now Faculty at Wayne State University, USA

• Jusak Tandean
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Chiral anomalies and dynamical electroweak-symmetry breaking
• Graduation Year: 1997
• Now at National Central University, Taiwan

• Tibor Torma
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Low energy dynamics of gravitation
• Graduation Year: 1997
• Now Faculty at University of Mississippi, USA

• Antonio F. Perez
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Electromagnetic mass difference of pions and kaons
• Graduation Year: 1995
• Now Financial Analyst at Credit Suisse in Ney York, USA

• Gustavo A. Burdman
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Phenomenology and symmetries in heavy meson physics
• Graduation Year: 1993
• Now Faculty at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

• Elizabeth A. Praton
• Advisors: Jennie Traschen & Stephen Schneider
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Rotation and structure in the universe
• Graduation Year: 1993
• Now Faculty at Franklin & Marshall College, USA

• Geoffrey B. Feldman
• Advisors: Barry Holstein & John Dubach
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Nonleptonic weak interactions in the delta and hypernuclear sectors
• Graduation Year: 1992
• Now Dean at Universidad del Este Puerto Rico, USA

• Seoktae Lee
• Advisor: Arthur Swift
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Mathematical structure of dynamical symmetry breaking
• Graduation Year: 1992
• Now at: ???

• Carlos A. Ramirez
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Phenomenological Lagrangians in QCD and TeV physics
• Graduation Year: 1991
• Now Faculty at Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia

• K.S. Sateesh
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Hadronic matter under extreme conditions
• Graduation Year: 1991
• Now at IBM Software Labs, India

• Thomas S. Sotirelis
• Advisor: Eugene Golowich
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: A truncated bag model of hadrons
• Graduation Year: 1991
• Now at John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA

• Philip S. Gribosky
• Advisor: Barry Holstein
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Finite temperature quantum field theory and effective lagrangians
• Graduation Year: 1989
• Now at: ???

• Yeu-Chung R. Lin
• Advisor: Barry Holstein
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Chiral lagrangians and their applications to low energy physics
• Graduation Year: 1988
• Now working in Industry in Taiwan

• German E. Valencia
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Searching for CP violation
• Graduation Year: 1988
• Now Faculty at Iowa State University, USA

• José Luis Rodriguez Marrero
• Advisor: Arthur Swift
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: The QCD ground state
• Graduation Year: 1985
• Now Faculty at Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid, Spain , his web page

• Harald Gomm
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Experimental signatures of glueballs
• Graduation Year: 1983
• Now at: ???

• Lorenzo De La Torre
• Advisor: Barry Holstein
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: On particle mixing and hypernuclear decay
• Graduation Year: 1982
• Now Faculty at Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

• William A. Ponce
• Advisor: Eugene Golowich
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: A study of weak interactions between confined quarks
• Graduation Year: 1979
• Now Faculty at Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

• Donoghue, John F.
• Advisor: Barry Holstein
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Weak nonleptonic interactions
• Graduation Year: 1976
• Now Faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

• Victor W. Elias
• Advisor: Arthur Swift
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Weak interaction content of unified gauge theories
• Graduation Year: 1976
• Formerly Faculty at University of Western Ontario, Canada , now deceased.

• Francesc S. Roig
• Advisor: Arthur Swift
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Investigations in hadron physics: bound state models for fermions; radiative corrections to pion-pion scattering
• Graduation Year: 1975
• Now Faculty at University of California Santa Barbara, USA

• Vishwa M. Kapila
• Advisor: Eugene Golowich
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Studies of hadronic symmetry breaking
• Graduation Year: 1974
• Now at Department of Energy, USA

       M.S. Alumni:

• Tobias Huber
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• M.S. Thesis Title: Chiral nucleon form factors and long distance regularization
• Graduation Year: 2002
• Now faculty at University of Siegen, Germany

• Björn Garbrecht
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• M.S. Thesis Title: A perturbative computation of the gravitational field of charged particles
• Graduation Year: 2001
• Now Postdoc at University of Manchester, UK

• Thomas M. Konstandin
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• M.S. Thesis Title: Vertex corrections in quantum gravity
• Graduation Year: 2001
• Now Postdoc at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm, Sweden

• Stefan W. Klimt
• Advisor: John Donoghue
• M.S. Thesis Title: SU(3) symmetry breaking in semileptonic hyperon decays
• Graduation Year: 1986
• Now at: ???

        Former Postdocs:

• Hael Collins
• At UMass from 2004-2006
• Now at Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark

• Subir Mukhopadhyay
• At UMass from 2001-2004
• Now at Sikkim University, India

• Dean Lee
• At UMass from 1998-2001
• Now Faculty at North Carolina State University, USA

• Bugra Borasoy
• At UMass from 1998-1999
• Now Postodc at Universität Bonn, Germany

• Joao M. Soares
• At UMass from 1995-1998
• Now Actuary in Insurance Industry, USA

• Joachim Kambor
• At UMass from 1992-1995
• Now teaching in Switzerland and associated with Universität Zürich, Switzerland

• Shoba Veeraraghavan
• At UMass from 1990-1992
• Now at Shell Global Solutions, UK ?

• Seven K. Blau
• At UMass from 1989-1990
• Now Editor for Physics Today, USA

• Palash B. Pal
• At UMass from 1986-1989
• Retired from  Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata, India in 2017
• Presently Emeritus Professor University of Calcutta

• Richard W. Robinett
• At UMass from 1983-1986
• Now Faculty at Pennsylvania State University, USA