Risa Wechsler
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galaxy formation & cosmology group
@ stanford

grad students


  • Elise Darragh-Ford (structure and substructure of the Milky-Way; dwarf galaxies) [our papers]
  • Nick Kokron (large-scale structure modeling, lensing, cosmology; PhD expected 2023) [our papers]
  • Mahlet Shiferaw (structure formation modeling)
  • Sebastian Wagner-Carena (strong lensing, cosmology with small-scale structure; PhD expected 2023) [our papers]
  • Yunchong (Richie) Wang (star formation in dwarf galaxies) [our papers]
  • 2022-23 Rotation Students: Tara Dacuna, Viraj Manwadkar

kipac postdoc collaborators


  • Jelle Aalbers [our papers]
  • Mia de los Reyes
  • ​Phil Mansfield
  • Wren Suess
  • Sihan (Sandy) Yuan [our papers]

undergrads


  • Deveshi Buch (Stanford '23)
  • Althea Hudson (Stanford '24)
  • Juliana Karp (Yale '25) 
  • Veronica Pratt (Stanford '23)
  • Azana Queen (Stanford '24)
  • Kihana Wilson (U Chicago '24 / Leadership Alliance 2022)
  • Boxin Zhang (Stanford '24)

phd student alumni


  • Peter Behroozi (2012, Asst Prof at U Arizona) [our papers]​​
  • Joe De Rose (2019; Chamberlain Fellow, LBNL) [our papers]
  • Harry Desmond (2017; Senior Research Fellow, Portsmouth) [our papers]
  • Tony Li (2016; Data Scientist, Apple) [our papers]​
  • Yao-Yuan Mao (2016; Asst Prof, Univ of Utah) [our papers]
  • ​Sean McLaughlin (2020; Data Scientist, Nova Credit) [our papers]
  • Ethan Nadler (2021, Carnegie & USC Fellow)​​ [our papers]
  • Rachel Reddick (2014; Data Scientist, Coursera) [our papers]
  • ​​Chun-Hao To (2021, CCAPP Fellow OSU)​​ [our papers]
  • Hao-Yi Wu (2011; Asst Prof, Boise State) [our papers]​
  • Dongwoo Chung (w Church; 2020; CITA) [our papers]
  • Warren Morningstar (w Blandford; 2019; Google) [our papers]

postdoc alumni


  • Susmita Adhikari  (IISER-Pune) [our papers]
  • Marcelo Alvarez  (LBNL) [our papers]
  • Alexandra Amon (Kavli Cambridge) [our papers]
  • Raul Angulo (IkerBasque)
  • ​Kirk Barrow​ (Harvard / UIUC)
  • Arka Banerjee (IISER-Pune) [our papers]
  • Matthew Becker (Argonne National Lab) [our papers] 
  • Simon Birrer (StonyBrook) [our papers]
  • Silvia Bonoli (IkerBasque) 
  • Michael Busha (Elastica) [our papers] 
  • Chia-Hsun (Albert) Chuang (Univ. of Utah) [our papers]
  • Carlos Cunha (Bosch) [our papers] 
  • Alis Deason (Durham University) [our papers] 
  • Brian Gerke [our papers] (LBNL)
  • Gregory Green [our papers] (MPIA, Heidelberg)
  • Daniel Gruen [our papers] (LMU, Munich)
  • Oliver Hahn [our papers] (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
  • Yashar Hezaveh [our papers] (McGill)
  • Ryan Keisler (KoBold Metals)
  • Elisabeth Krause [our papers] (University of Arizona)
  • Johannes Lange [our papers]
  • Yu Lu [our papers] (Lam Research)
  • Jessie Muir [our papers] (Perimeter Institute)
  • Yuuki Omori [our papers] (U Chicago)
  • Laurence Perrault Levasseur [our papers]  (McGill Univ.)
  • 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 2017), GS, JHU
  • Parth Garg (Stanford '23)
  • Brett Harvey (Stanford '17) Aurora Solar
  • Alessa Ibrahim (CAMPARE 2018) GS, TCU
  • Benjamin Lehmann (Stanford '15), Postdoc, MIT 
  • Denise Lepore (CAMPARE 2017)
  • Abigail Lee (U Penn / Summer 2018) GS, Univ of Chicago 
  • Yu Xian Lim (Stanford '11)
  • Alex Ji (Stanford '11) Assistant Professor, U Chicago
  • Amara McCune (Stanford '18) GS, UC Berkeley
  • Nicel Mohammed-Hinds (Stanford '19) GS, U Washington
  • Lindsey Payne (Stanford '22)
  • Arpit Ranisaria (Stanford '24)
  • ​​Kathlynn Simotas (Stanford. '21)
  • Siyi Song (Calbridge Summer 2022)
  • Jacob Stanton (Leadership Alliance 2019)
  • Vincent Su (Stanford '16) GS, UC Berkeley
  • Madison Ueland (Stanford '23)
  • Duncan Wood (Stanford '17) GS, UC Santa Cruz
  • Marc Williamson (Stanford '15) GS, New York University
  • Amber Yang (Stanford '21) Investor

kipac collaborators


  • Tom Abel [our papers]
  • Sarah Church [our papers]
  • Phil Marshall [our papers]
  • Aaron Roodman [our papers]
  • Eli Rykoff [our papers]
  • Emmanuel Schaan 

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.  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. I am unfortunately not able to meet directly with most students before they apply, given the number of queries I get.

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.

I do not have room for pre-college students in my group at this time.
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