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

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Manda Banerji

PhD obtained in 2009

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Japheth Yates

PhD obtained in 2013

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Boris Leistedt

PhD obtained in 2014

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Marcell Tessenyi

PhD obtained in 2014

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Roser Juanola-Parramon

PhD obtained in 2014

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Antonia Bevan

PhD obtained in 2016

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Jonathan Holdship

PhD obtained in 2017

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Luisa Lucie-Smith

PhD obtained in 2019

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Romain Meyer

PhD obtained in 2020

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Maria Niculescu-Duvaz

PhD obtained in 2021

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Davide Piras

PhD obtained in 2021

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Lucy Hogarth

PhD obtained in 2023

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Francesca Gerardi

PhD obtained in 2023

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Dirk Scholte

PhD obtained in 2024

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Luke Keyte

PhD obtained in 2024

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Arianna Saba

PhD obtained in 2024

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