Skip Navigation
Search

Kathleen Flint Ehm, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Initiatives
Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Kathleen Flint Ehm

Currently on leave with the Division of Graduate Education at NSF

Please contact ashley.staples@stonybrook.edu with any questions related to PhD Career Ladder Program.

Kathleen Flint Ehm, PhD, joined the Graduate School in 2013 and currently serves as Assistant Dean for Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs in the Graduate School at Stony Brook University. In this role, she leads Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development, overseeing professional and educational initiatives for graduate students and postdocs, and directs the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. She is also a Research Assistant Professor with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, where she teaches science communication. Dr. Ehm has almost twenty years’ experience in postdoctoral policy and professional development for PhDs. She spent six years at the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA), serving as project manager for grant-funded initiatives. She was lead author on the NPA’s Responsible Conduct of Research Toolkit and From Ph.D. to Professoriate: The Role of the Institution in Fostering the Advancement of Postdoc Women. In 2004, she spent a year in residence at the National Science Foundation where she was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). There she helped manage NSF’s first competition of the Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr. Ehm is an active member of the National Postdoctoral Association, the Graduate Career Consortium, and the AAAS. An astronomer by training, Dr. Ehm did her postdoctoral training at Gemini Observatory North and the Carnegie Institution of Science’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. She holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a B.S. in Math and Astronomy from the University of Arizona.  

Email: kathleen.ehm@stonybrook.edu