Team
I am co-leading with Prof. Roberto Maiolino the Galaxy Formation and Evolution Group at the Department of Physics (Cavendish Laboratory) and at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge. We are a diverse team of researchers working on galaxy evolution with a wide range different approaches (imaging and spectroscopic data, numerical simulations and analytical theory). Our postdocs and students have a wide range of different educational backgrounds, including astronomy, physics, mathematics, computer science, and data science. You can find more information on our team website.
Want to join the team?
PhD Students: Cavendish Astrophysics PhD
Postdocs Opportunities (please get in touch): Kavli Fellowship, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, Leverhulme ECF, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships, Newton International Fellowship, RAS Research Fellowships, Royal Society URF, and STFC Rutherford Fellowship.
Current Team Members
Postdocs
Charlotte Simmonds: Reionization and stellar populations in early galaxies
Seunghwan Lim: Clustering and proto-cluster evolution, co-advised with Roberto Maiolino
PhD Students
Sara Saleh: Galaxy-halo connection with JWST
Qiao Duan: Stellar populations in the early Universe
Tze Goh: Morphological evolution of galaxies in numerical simulations
Robert Pascalau: Stellar kineamtics of high-z galaxies, co-advised with Francesco D'Eugenio
Amanda Stoffers: Escape fraction in galaxies and JAX-based SED fitting code
David Puskas: Merger rate at high redshifts with JWST
Angelica Lola Danhaive: Kinematics with JWST grism observations
Will McClymont: Radiative transfer simulations
Gabriel Maheson: Dust attenuation in galaxies, co-advised with Roberto Maiolino
MPhil Students
Kingston Kingsley: Dynamical modelling to infer the dark matter fraction of galaxies at z=5
Jacques Valkenberg: Impact on metallicity on the 21cm signal
Part III Students
Phoebe Chapman: Fraction of clumpy galaxies as a function of cosmic time
Dougal Wentworth: Inferring the 3D shape of galaxies
Zebedee Summerfield: LyC escape of simulated galaxies
Previous Team Members & Collaborators
PhD Students:
William Baker (2022-24): Morphological evolution of galaxies, co-advised with Roberto Maiolino
Shweta Jain (2022-24): Size evolution of galaxies, graduate student at the University of Kentucky
Minjung Park (2020-22): Star-formation quenching, co-advised with Lars Hernquist and Charlie Conroy at Harvard University
Rohan Naidu (2018-20): Reionization & early galaxy formation, co-advised with Charlie Conroy at Harvard University
MPhil Students at Cambridge
Natalia Villanueva (2023-24): Halpha and UV sizes of galaxies
Brian X. Jiang (2023-24): New black hole feedback model
Jenny Wan (2022-23): Star-formation variability
Master Students:
Kolya Schwinge (2023-24): Physics Part III at Cambridge "Galactic bar fraction with JWST"
Crispin Turner (2023-24): Physics Part III at Cambridge "Measuring stellar ages in the oldest galaxies"
Liam Brown (2023-24): Physics Part III at Cambridge "Spatially Resolved Photometric Redshift Fitting Using EAZY"
Owen Cooper (2023-24): Physics Part III at Cambridge "Importance of mergers in galaxy formation simulations"
Arla Bamllari (2022-23): Physics Part III at Cambridge "Clumpy galaxies with JWST"
Amanda Stoffers (2022-23): Physics Part III at Cambridge "LyC escape of local galaxies"
Edward Roberts (2022-23): Physics Part III at Cambridge "Source detection algorithm for high-z galaxies"
Nachiket Girish (2022-23): Physics Part III at Cambridge "Modelling post-starburst galaxies"
Youngjun Cho (2021-22): MSc Thesis at UNIST "Deprojecting galaxies"
Bachelor/Summer Students:
Natalia Villanueva (2021-22 ): PRISE Fellowship at Harvard University
Hagyeong Cha (2021-22): Bachelor Thesis at UNIST
Woojin Lee (2021-22): Undergraduate Internship at UNIST
Haemin Lee (2021-22): Undergraduate Internship at UNIST
Leah Zuckerman (2021): REU, co-advised with Sirio Belli and Joel Leja at Harvard University
Alberto Chavez (2020): Latino Initiative Program at SAO
Diana Khimey (2020): PRISE Fellowship, co-advised with Sownak Bose at Harvard University
Peyton Benac (2019) Junior Thesis at Harvard University
Anna Bolon & Foster Norman (2018-19): Science Research Mentoring Program at Harvard University
Kartheik Iyer (2018): Kavli Summer Program at CCA
Xiaohan Wu (2018): Kavli Summer Program at CCA
Ana Georgescu (2018): Junior Thesis at Harvard University
Massimo Bortone (2017): Bachelor Thesis at ETH Zurich
Pascal M. Keller (2017): Bachelor Research Internship at ETH Zurich
Felix A. Kuhn (2015): Bachelor Thesis at ETH Zurich
Anna Weigel (2013): Bachelor Thesis at ETH Zurich