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galaxy formation & cosmology group
@ stanford

grad students


  • Jay Baptista (GC modeling in the Milky Way),
  • Tara Dacunha (galaxy formation; the ICL and stellar halos)
  • Abby Hartley (modeling emission lines in galaxy evolution) 
  • Viraj Manwadkar (dwarf galaxies, DESI)
  • Delon Shen (with Manu Schaan; cosmological statistics)
  • Mahlet Shiferaw (structure formation modeling; galaxy bias)
  • Jenny Wan (dwarf galaxies at high redshift)
  • Hanyue Wang (galaxy clustering,)

kipac postdoc & research scientist collaborators


  • Christian Aganze
  • Suchetha Cooray
  • Ioana Cuica 
  • ​Phil Mansfield​ [our papers]
  • Sergio Martin-Alvarez
  • Kate Story-Fisher [our papers]
  • Sihan (Sandy) Yuan [our papers]

undergrads


  • Paul Gontard (Stanford '27)
  • Michelle Park (Stanford '26)
  • Azana Queen (Stanford '24)

phd student alumni


  • Peter Behroozi (2012, Assoc Prof at U Arizona) [our papers]​​
  • Elise Darragh-Ford (2024) [our papers]
  • Joe De Rose (2019; Chamberlain Fellow, LBNL --> Staff Scientist Brookhaven) [our papers]
  • Harry Desmond (2017; Senior Research Fellow, Portsmouth) [our papers]
  • Nick Kokronwww.sns.ias.edu/~kokron/ (2023; Postdoc, Princeton/IAS) [our papers]
  • Tony Li (2016; Software Engineer, Weights & Biases) [our papers]​
  • Yao-Yuan Mao (2016; Asst Prof, Univ of Utah) [our papers]
  • ​Sean McLaughlin (2020; Data Scientist, Blue Rose Research) [our papers]
  • Ethan Nadler (2021, Carnegie & USC Fellow --> Asst Prof, UCSD)​​ [our papers]

  • Rachel Reddick (2014; Data Scientist, Discord) [our papers]
  • ​​Chun-Hao To (2021, Schmidt AI Fellow University of Chicago)​​ [our papers]
  • Sebastian Wagner-Carena (2023, Postdoc, NYU and CCA) [our papers]
  • Yunchong (Richie) Wang (2024, Researcher, Old Mission) [our papers]
  • Hao-Yi Wu (2011; Asst Prof, Southern Methodist University) [our papers]​
  • Dongwoo Chung (w Church; 2020; Asst Prof, Cornell) [our papers]
  • Warren Morningstar (w Blandford; 2019; Google) [our papers]

postdoc alumni


  • Jelle Aalbers (Groningen) [our papers]
  • Susmita Adhikari  (IISER-Pune) [our papers]
  • Marcelo Alvarez  (Stanford) [our papers]
  • Alexandra Amon (Princeton) [our papers]
  • Raul Angulo (IkerBasque)
  • ​Kirk Barrow​ (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  • Arka Banerjee (IISER-Pune) [our papers]
  • Matthew Becker (Argonne National Lab) [our papers] 
  • Simon Birrer (StonyBrook) [our papers]
  • Silvia Bonoli (IkerBasque]
  • Michael Busha (Securiti) [our papers]
  • Chia-Hsun (Albert) Chuang (Fuzzy Door Tech) [our papers]
  • Carlos Cunha (Bosch) [our papers]
  • Mia de los Reyes (Amherst College]
  • Alis Deason (Durham University) [our papers]
  • Brian Gerke (LBNL) [our papers] 
  • Gregory Green (MPIA, Heidelberg) [our papers]
  • Daniel Gruen (LMU, Munich) [our papers] 
  • Oliver Hahn (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur) [our papers] 
  • Yashar Hezaveh (McGill)  [our papers]
  • Ryan Keisler (Brightband)
  • Elisabeth Krause (University of Arizona) [our papers]
  • Johannes Lange (American University) [our papers]
  • Yu Lu (Lam Research) [our papers] 
  • Martin Millon (ETH Zurich)
  • Jessie Muir (Perimeter Institute) [our papers] 
  • Yuuki Omori  (U Chicago) [our papers]
  • Laurence Perrault Levasseur (McGill Univ.) [our papers]  
  • Eduardo Rozo (University of Arizona)  [our papers] 
  • Sam Skillman (Google) [our papers]​ 
  • Kyle Story (Muon Space)  [our papers]
  • Louie Strigari (Texas A&M) [our papers] ​
  • Wren Suess (U Colorado, Boulder)

undergraduate student alumni


  • Deveshi Buch (Stanford '23)
  • Zhanpei Fang (Stanford '19)
  • Carrie Filion (Leadership Alliance 2017), GS, JHU
  • Parth Garg (Stanford '23)
  • Brett Harvey (Stanford '17) Aurora Solar
  • Althea Hudson (Stanford '24)
  • Alessa Ibrahim (CAMPARE 2018) GS, TCU
  • Juliana Karp (Yale '25) 
  • 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)
  • Veronica Pratt (Stanford '23)
  • 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
  • Kihana Wilson (U Chicago '24)
  • Amber Yang (Stanford '21) Investor
  • Boxin Zhang (Stanford '24)
  • Postbac Scholar: Everett McArthur (Columbia '23 --> OSU grad school)

kipac collaborators


  • Tom Abel [our papers]
  • Marcelo Alvarez [our papers]
  • Sarah Church [our papers]
  • Agnes Ferte [our papers]
  • ​Phil Marshall [our papers]
  • Aaron Roodman [our papers]
  • Eli Rykoff [our papers]
  • Emmanuel Schaan [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 Friday at 3 pm SLAC. 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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