Past & Present Clay Fellows

Year	Clay Fellow	Ph.D. Institution	Current Position
2000	Vasilliki Kalogera	University of Illinois, Urbana	E.O. Haven Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University; and Co-Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)

2001	Bryan Gaensler	University of Sydney	Dean of the Division of Physical & Biological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz
2001	Lynn Matthews	State University of New York, Stony Brook	Research Scientist, MIT Haystack Observatory

2002	Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas	University of Toronto	PhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California; and Graduate Research Assistant, Biomedical Simulations Resource, University of Southern California
2002	Danny Steeghs	Saint Andrews University, United Kingdom	Professor and head of the Astronomy & Astrophysics group within the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick

2003	Paul Martini	Ohio State University	Professor, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University

2004	Eric Mamajek	University of Arizona	Program Manager, Exoplanets - Astronomy & Physics Directorate, JPL

2005	Warren Brown	Harvard University	Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

2006	Beth Willman	University of Washington	Chief Executive Officer, LSST Discovery Alliance

2007	Andres Jordan	Rutgers University	Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

2008	Ryan Foley	University of California, Berkeley	Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California at Santa Cruz
2008	Anna Frebel	The Australian National University	Astrophysics Division Head, MIT

2009	Yue Shen	Princeton University	Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2009	Matija Cuk	Cornell University	Research Scientist, SETI Institute

2010	Mariska Kriek	Leiden University, The Netherlands	Professor, Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley

2011	A Clay Fellowship was not awarded in 2011.

2012	Adam Kraus	California Institute of Technology	Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
2012	Liubin Pan	University of Texas at Austin	Research Scientist, School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, China

2013	Christian Johnson	Visiting Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory	Senior Staff Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute
2013	Kate Rubin	University of California, Santa Cruz	Associate Professor of Astronomy, San Diego State University

2014
2014	Harus Jabran Zahid	University of Hawaii at Manoa	Astrophysicist, Life Sciences Research and Data Scientist at Microsoft Research

2015
2015	Reinout van Weeren	Leiden University, The Netherlands	Assistant Professor at Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands

2017	A Clay Fellowship was not awarded in 2017.

2018	Vikram Ravi	University of Melbourne	Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Caltech University
2018	Andra Stroe	Leiden University, The Netherlands	Clay Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

2019	Sirio Belli	California Institute of Technology	Fixed-term researcher type b) (senior) Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi"
2019	Laura Kreidberg	University of Chicago	Director, APEx Department, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

2020	Julian Munoz	Assistant Professor, UT Austin Department of Astronomy	Clay Fellow

2021	A Clay Fellowship was not awarded in 2021.

2022	Morgan MacLeod	University of California, Santa Cruz	Clay Fellow
2022	Fabio Pacucci	Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Italy	Clay Fellow

2023	Alice Booth	University of Leeds	Clay Fellow

2024	Sebastian Gomez	Harvard University	Clay Fellow

2025	Anna de Graaff	Leiden University	Clay Fellow
2025	Hannah Rana	University of Oxford	Clay Fellow

Past & Present Clay Fellows

Year

Clay Fellow

Ph.D. Institution

Current Position