People

Interested in Near Field Cosmology at University of Chicago?

• Prospective graduate students: Apply to the UChicago PhD Program and include my name in your application. However, I do not expect to take any graduate students until at least 2026.
• Current UChicago graduate students: send me an e-mail with your resume/CV and a description of research interests.
• Current UChicago undergraduate students: in 2024-2025, I expect to only take students through the Astro Field Course.
• Undergraduates outside UChicago: I am currently only accepting external undergraduate students through the UChicago Leadership Alliance.
• High school students: I do not take high school students in my research group.
• Postdoctoral fellowships and positions: If you would like to come to UChicago through a national or UChicago fellowship, please e-mail me and let me know! The primary local fellowships at UChicago are the Margaret Burbidge Fellowship and the KICP Fellowship. The primary national fellowships are the NSF AAPF, NHFP Hubble Fellowship, and the Brinson Prize Fellowship. A list of other opportunities is here: https://astrophysics.uchicago.edu/research/prize-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-astronomy-and-astrophysics/. If you are interested in connections between astronomy and artificial intelligence, consider applying to the SkAI Institute.

Current Group Members at UChicago

• Ani Chiti (Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Guilherme Limberg (KICP Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Samantha Usman (PhD student)
• Alice Luna (PhD student)
• Pierre Thibodeaux (PhD student)
• Daisy Bissonette (PhD student)
• Hillary Andales (PhD student)
• Jarvis Zhang (UChicago Undergrad Student)
• Benjamin Cohen (UChicago Undergrad Student)
• Ha Do (UChicago Undergrad Student)
• Selenna Meijas-Torres (UChicago Undergrad Student)

We share group meetings with the Survey Science Group

Past Group Members

• Sanjana Curtis (Postdoctoral Scholar -> Oregon State Faculty)
• Yupeng Yao (MS student)
• Shuyu Wang (MS student)
• Noah Geller (UChicago Undergrad)
• Morgan Lee (UWisconsin Undergrad)
• Charlie Walsh (UChicago Undergrad)
• Kaia Atzberger (OSU Undergrad)
• Naomi Carl (ASU Undergrad)
• Ananya Kaalva (UT Austin Undergrad)