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Alumni Career Profiles

Read our interviews with former students to see where a PhD in Astrophysics has taken our alumni.

Manda Banerji PhD obtained in 2009
Japheth Yates PhD obtained in 2013
Boris Leistedt PhD obtained in 2014
Marcell Tessenyi PhD obtained in 2014
Roser Juanola-Parramon PhD obtained in 2014
Antonia Bevan PhD obtained in 2016
Jonathan Holdship PhD obtained in 2017
Luisa Lucie-Smith PhD obtained in 2019
Romain Meyer PhD obtained in 2020
Maria Niculescu-Duvaz PhD obtained in 2021
Davide Piras PhD obtained in 2021
Lucy Hogarth PhD obtained in 2023
Francesca Gerardi PhD obtained in 2023
Dirk Scholte PhD obtained in 2024
Luke Keyte PhD obtained in 2024
Arianna Saba PhD obtained in 2024

Notable alumni

Many famous faces and distinguished physicists and astronomers began their careers at UCL. See our Notable Alumni page for more information.