Research
This page is under construction. Future updates will likely include more project details and links to talk slides/videos.
The main focus of my current research is the nature of dark matter and its effects on the early universe and the first stars and galaxies. I also work on cosmological reionization, black hole populations, big bang relics, and high-energy astrophysics. You can find my publications here and a list of recent presentations in my CV.
A few of my current collaborators (and project topics) include, in order of distance from my current institution:
- Prof. Stuart Wyithe, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
Consequences of dark matter annihilation on early structure formation - Prof. Richard Easther, Department of Physics, University of Auckland
Inflation and the small-scale matter power spectrum - Dr. Leonidas Moustakas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Cosmological microlensing constraints on intermediate-mass black holes - Dr. Jonathan Pritchard, Astrophysics Group, Physics Department, Imperial College London
21cm absorption and damped Lyman-alpha systems
Past collaborators and co-authors include, in rough chronological order:
- Assoc. Prof. Peng Oh, Physics Department, UC Santa Barbara
- Prof. George Efstathiou, Kavli Institute for Cosmology / Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
- Prof. Jeremiah Ostriker, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
- Asst. Prof. Massimo Ricotti, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
- Dr. Daniel Wesley, formerly of Center for Particle Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
- Assoc. Prof. Lindsay King, Department of Physics, UT Dallas
- Prof. Paul Steinhardt, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University