Where Are They Now?

One often hears the phrase “publish or perish” in the halls of academe, however in today's theoretical particle physics job market, being published is not enough. Not even being published, read, and cited.

• Michael Brhlik: 861 citations, Shell

• James Carazzone: 1104 citations, Exxon

• Peter Cho: 1028 citations, Lincoln Laboratory

• Michael Dugan: 801 citations, Office of Information Technology, Boston University

• Toby Falk: 932 citations,

Goldman Sachs

• Mitch Golden: 901 citations,

Agency.com

• Igor Halperin: 792 citations,

Bloomberg L.P.

• Patrick Huet: 1129 citations,

KLA-Tencor

• Brian Hill: 1052 citations,

NeXT/Apple

• David C. Lewellen: 1571 citations, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, West Virginia University

• Jorge Lopez: 3397 citations,

Shell E&P Technology Company

• Damien Pierce: 1062 citations,

Music Production, New York]]

• Nir Polonsky: 1906 citations,

McKinsey & Company

• Phillipe Pouliot: 1283 citations,

Morgan Stanley

• Joachim Rahmfeld: 795 citations,

Sun Microsystems

• Kurt Riesselmann: 513 citations,

Editor, Public Affairs at Fermilab

• Ryan Rohm: 4130 citations, Adjunct Associate Professor,

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Lawrence Romans: 1596 citations,

Jet Propulsion Lab

• Myckola Schwetz: 535 citations,

Safeweb, Emeryville CA

• Martin Sohnius: 1682 citations,

Novell, Cambridge, UK

• Robin Stuart: 1549 citations,

Merrill Lynch

Of course some people do manage to get faculty jobs and then decide that academia is not all it's cracked up to be:

• Michael Berhsadsky: 2368 citations, did not go to Toronto in order to work for Renaissance Technologies.

• Michael Mattis: 1422 citations, left Los Alamos for his antique photography business.

• Uri Sarid: 629 citations, left Notre Dame to form digiGroups.

Note: number of citations is obtained from SPIRES