Risa Wechsler
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galaxy formation & cosmology group
@ stanford

grad students


  • Elise Darragh-Ford (structure and substructure of the Milky-Way) [our papers]
  • Nick Kokron (large-scale structure modeling, lensing, cosmology) [our papers]
  • Ethan Nadler (dark matter and galaxy formation from satellite galaxies, PhD expected Summer 2021)​​ [our papers]
  • Chun-Hao To (cluster cosmology, galaxy populations in clusters, PhD expected Summer 2021) [our papers]
  • Richie Wang (star formation in dwarf galaxies)
  • Sebastian Wagner-Carena (strong lensing, cosmology with small-scale structure) [our papers]

kipac postdoc and research associate collaborators


  • Alexandra Amon [our papers]
  • ​Kirk Barrow​
  • Simon Birrer [our papers]
  • Chia-Hsun (Albert) Chuang [our papers]
  • Phil Mansfield
  • Jessie Muir [our papers]

undergrads


  • Deveshi Buch (Stanford '23)
  • Parth Garg (Stanford '23)
  • Veronica Pratt (Stanford '23)

  • Madison Ueland (Stanford '23)
  • Kathlynn Simotas (Stanford. '21)

phd student alumni


  • Peter Behroozi (2012, Asst Prof at U Arizona) [our papers]​
  • Dongwoo Chung (w Church 2020; CITA) [our papers]
  • Joe De Rose (2019; Postdoc at UCB/UCSC) [our papers]
  • Harry Desmond (2017; Postdoc at Oxford) [our papers]
  • Tony Li (2016; Apple) [our papers]​
  • Yao-Yuan Mao (2016; Hubble Fellow, Rutgers) [our papers]
  • ​Sean McLaughlin (2020) [our papers]
  • Warren Morningstar (w Blandford; 2019; Google) [our papers]
  • Rachel Reddick (2014; Bosch) [our papers]
  • Hao-Yi Wu (2011; Asst Prof, Boise State) [our papers]​

postdoc alumni


  • Susmita Adhikari [our papers] (U Chicago)
  • Marcelo Alvarez [our papers] (LBNL)
  • Raul Angulo (IkerBasque)
  • Arka Banerjee [our papers] (U Chicago)
  • Matthew Becker [our papers] (Argonne National Lab)
  • Silvia Bonoli (IkerBasque) 
  • Michael Busha [our papers] (Elastica)
  • Carlos Cunha [our papers] (Bosch)
  • Alis Deason [our papers] (Durham University)
  • Brian Gerke [our papers] (LBNL)
  • Gregory Green [our papers] (MPIA, Heidelberg)
  • Oliver Hahn [our papers] (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
  • Yashar Hezaveh [our papers] (McGill)
  • Ryan Keisler (Decartes Labs)
  • Elisabeth Krause [our papers] (University of Arizona)
  • Yu Lu [our papers] (Carnegie Observatories)
  • Yuuki Omori [our papers] (U Chicago)
  • Laurence Perrault Levasseur [our papers]  (McGill)
  • Eduardo Rozo [our papers] (University of Arizona)
  • Sam Skillman [our papers]​ (Decartes Labs)
  • Kyle Story [our papers] (Decartes Labs)
  • Louie Strigari [our papers] (UT Austin)

undergraduate student alumni


  • Zhanpei Fang (Stanford '19)
  • Carrie Filion (Leadership Alliance Summer 2017), JHU
  • Brett Harvey (Stanford '17)
  • Alessa Ibrahim (CAMPARE summer student 2018)
  • Benjamin Lehmann (Stanford '15), UCSC 
  • Denise Lepore (CAMPARE Summer 2017)
  • Abigail Lee (U Penn / Summer 2018) Univ of Chicago 
  • Yu Xian Lim (Stanford '11)
  • Alex Ji (Stanford '11) Assistant Professor, U Chicago
  • Amara McCune (Stanford '18)
  • Nicel Mohammed-Hinds (Stanford '19)
  • Jacob Stanton (Leadership Alliance Summer 2019)
  • Vincent Su (Stanford '16) UC Berkeley
  • Duncan Wood (Stanford '17)
  • Marc Williamson (Stanford '15) New York University
  • Amber Yang (Stanford) University of Chicago

kipac collaborators


  • Tom Abel [our papers]
  • Sarah Church [our papers]
  • Daniel Gruen [our papers]
  • Phil Marshall [our papers]
  • Eli Rykoff [our papers]

join us!


If you are interested in a postdoctoral fellowship with my group, please email me directly.  Generally, you should apply through the KIPAC postdoctoral program, but feel free to be in touch with questions. 

If you are a current/incoming Stanford graduate student interested in doing a rotation, send me an email, or drop by my group meetings on Mondays at 12:30 in PAB 232 / on zoom during pandemic!   Graduate students at other institutions who are interested in joining us for a period of 3-12 months to work on specific collaborative projects (generally, related to DES, DESI, or LSST, or related cosmological theory/simulations) can apply through the DOE SCGSR Program (contact me first!)

If you are a prospective Stanford graduate student, please apply through the Stanford Physics Department, and also take a look at the KIPAC opportunities.

If you are a Stanford undergraduate interested in doing research with the group, send me an email to ask about possibilities.  Please include information about your past research experience, what year you are, and some information about your computing skills.  I usually take on 1-2 students each summer through the Stanford Physics Summer Research Program, and consider taking students with some coding experience during the academic year.

Undergraduate students from other institutions who are interested in summer research can apply through one of the following programs: SLAC SULI, CAMPARE (for students in California State Universities and Community Colleges), or SR-EIP/Leadership Alliance.  I am not currently taking on any non-Stanford students outside of these three programs.
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