Saul A. Teukolsky: advisors and students

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Saul A. Teukolsky

Astrophysicistborn 1947

Supervised 14 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology and Cornell University; Wikidata names Kip S. Thorne as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Students14

cited by a thesis record
Himanshu Chaudhary “High-Accuracy Binary Black Hole Simulations in SpEC”
2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kyle Christopher Nelli “Topics in Numerical Relativity: Horizon Finding, Asynchronous Parallelism, and Cross-Code Comparisons of Gravitational Waveforms”
2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dongze Sun “Toward LISA-Accurate Binary-Black-Hole Waveforms: Waveform Hybridization and Strong-Field Matching”
2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sarah Mary Habib “Error Quantification and Mitigation for Numerical Compact Binary Waveforms”
2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yoonsoo Kim “Numerical Modeling of High-energy Transients from Black Holes and Neutron Stars”
2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Keefe Edward Alden Mitman “Asymptotics with Numerical Relativity: Gravitational Memory, BMS Frames, and Nonlinearities”
2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gabriel Steffano Bonilla “BEYOND-GR WAVEFORM MODELS AND NUMERICAL RELATIVITY”
2021 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dante Iozzo “Improving the Determination of Asymptotic Quantities in Numerical Spacetimes, with Application to Gravitational Waves”
2021 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Eamonn O'Shea “Gravitational Waveform Modelling with Machine Learning and for Eccentric Binary Systems”
2021 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Matthew David Giesler “Probing the Nature of Black Holes with Gravitational Waves”
2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nils Deppe “Advances in Computational General Relativity”
2020 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Maria Okounkova “Numerical Relativity Beyond General Relativity”
2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
William Throwe “Numerical methods for exascale magnetohydrodynamics simulations in general relativity”
2019 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Francois Marie Antoine Herbert “Exploring relativistic gravity with numerical simulations”
2017 · Cornell University · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Kip S. Thorne

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Harald Pfeiffer
born 1974
stated by Wikidata
Daniel A. Hemberger
stated by Wikidata
François Foucart

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataKip S. Thorne
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Archibald Wheeler
3 steps up
stated by WikidataKarl Herzfeld
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArnold Sommerfeldstated by WikidataFriedrich Hasenöhrl

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 17 people: 14 cited by thesis records, 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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undated
University of the Witwatersrand
studied
undated
California Institute of Technology
studied
undated
Cornell University
worked

Coauthors in OpenAlex212

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

indexed by OpenAlex
Stuart L. Shapiro
100 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Mark Scheel
90 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Larry Kidder
75 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
William H. Press
66 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Harald Pfeiffer
44 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
William T. Vetterling
35 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Brian P. Flannery
33 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Nils Deppe
31 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Michael Boyle
26 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
William Throwe
25 shared works

OpenAlex lists 202 more people who share a work with them.

Sat beside the lineage26

committee member, not advisor

cited by a thesis record
Joon-Hwi Kim “Reimagining Gravity: Generalized Symmetries, Double Copy, and Spinning Black Holes”
committee member · 2027 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Himanshu Chaudhary “High-Accuracy Binary Black Hole Simulations in SpEC”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Simona Jane Miller “Robustly Measuring the Spins of Binary Black Holes with Gravitational Waves”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kyle Christopher Nelli “Topics in Numerical Relativity: Horizon Finding, Asynchronous Parallelism, and Cross-Code Comparisons of Gravitational Waveforms”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dongze Sun “Toward LISA-Accurate Binary-Black-Hole Waveforms: Waveform Hybridization and Strong-Field Matching”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sarah Mary Habib “Error Quantification and Mitigation for Numerical Compact Binary Waveforms”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sophie Rose Hourihane “A Glitch and the Matrix: Advances in Gravitational-Wave Glitch Mitigation and Acceleration of Pulsar Timing Analyses”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yoonsoo Kim “Numerical Modeling of High-energy Transients from Black Holes and Neutron Stars”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Isaac Norman Legred “Neutron Stars: Robust Constraints on Dense Matter from Astrophysics”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Brian Christopher Seymour “Future Prospects in Gravitational Waves: From Testing”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dongjun Li “Black Hole Perturbation Theory Beyond General Relativity and Holographic Gravity in Flat Spacetime”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Keefe Edward Alden Mitman “Asymptotics with Numerical Relativity: Gravitational Memory, BMS Frames, and Nonlinearities”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Baoyi Chen “Near-Horizon Black Hole Physics”
committee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Zachary R. Mark “Gravitational Wave Signatures of Black Hole Physics”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Thomas Alfred III Callister “Searching for the Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background and Prompt Radio Emission from Compact Binaries”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Matthew David Giesler “Probing the Nature of Black Holes with Gravitational Waves”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Alexander Maxim Grant “Angular Momentum in General Relativity”
committee member · 2020 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Georgios Valogiannis “Testing gravity with cosmology: efficient simulations, novel statistics and analytical approaches”
committee member · 2020 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michelle Lorraine Vick “Going with the Flow: Tidal Evolution in Eccentric Systems”
committee member · 2020 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Song Ming Du “Fundamental Physics Through Gravitational Waves: From No-Hair Theorem to Quantum Structures of Black Holes”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Maria Okounkova “Numerical Relativity Beyond General Relativity”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Surabhi Sachdev “Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO Data”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vadapalli Vijay S. Varma “Black Hole Simulations: From Supercomputers to Your Laptop”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Avani Gowardhan “STAR-FORMATION ACROSS COSMIC TIME.”
committee member · 2019 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Daniel Leslie Hall “New Insights into the Limitations on the Efficiency and Achievable Gradients in Nb3Sn SRF Cavities”
committee member · 2017 · Cornell University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Zhimeng Zhang “MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS PROVIDE CLUES TO THE ORIGIN OF SATURN'S MAIN RINGS”
committee member · 2017 · Cornell University · doctoral

At a glance

known as: physicist
fields: astrophysics
awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society, Einstein Prize, 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship, ICTP Dirac Medal, 2021
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
notable works: Numerical Recipes
Wikipedia: in 12 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere11

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaSaul Teukolsky
stated by WikidataWikidataQ287433
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0001-9765-4526
stated by WikidataVIAF44359576
stated by WikidataGND136673651
stated by WikidataIdRef031627757
stated by WikidataISNI0000000108929752

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle ScholarmoD78K4AAAAJ
stated by WikidataDBLP87/3558
stated by WikidataScopus7004184897

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project23979

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q287433,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Saul A. Teukolsky: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q287433},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Saul A. Teukolsky: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q287433