• Caltech professor Christian Ott has resigned after claims he sexually harassed two of his students.

• Ott had been suspended from campus since the fall of 2015.

• His resignation came as the school was deciding whether to allow him to return to campus.

Christian Ott, a “rising star” in the astrophysics department at the California Institute of Technology, has resigned following a sexual harassment investigation, BuzzFeed News reported.

In 2015, Ott was placed on nine-month unpaid leave for “unambiguous gender-based harassment” of two students and restricted from stepping foot on campus until the suspension was up.

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Source:: BusinessInsider.Com