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. I expect to take a PhD student in the fall 2026 or 2027 application cycles.
- Current UChicago graduate students: send me an e-mail with your resume/CV and a description of research interests.
- Current UChicago undergraduate students: in 2026-2027, I expect to only take students through the Astro Field Course (ASTR 29001-29002), which can continue into summer 2027.
- Undergraduates outside UChicago: I am currently only accepting external undergraduate students through the SkAI SEED program.
- 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
- Guilherme Limberg (KICP Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Alice Luna (PhD student)
- Pierre Thibodeaux (PhD student)
- Daisy Bissonette (PhD student)
- Hillary Andales (PhD student)
- Emma Bea Armstrong (UChicago Undergrad)
- Hexi Jin (UChicago Undergrad)
We share group meetings with the Survey Science Group
Past Group Members
- Samantha Usman (PhD student -> Colgate Visiting Faculty)
- Sanjana Curtis (Postdoctoral Scholar -> Oregon State Faculty)
- Ani Chiti (Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow -> Stanford)
- Yupeng Yao (MS student -> University North Texas PhD)
- Shuyu Wang (MS student -> Leiden PhD)
- Noah Geller (UChicago Undergrad -> UChicago MS)
- Morgan Lee (UWisconsin Undergrad -> Brown PhD)
- Charlie Walsh (UChicago Undergrad)
- Kaia Atzberger (OSU Undergrad -> UVa PhD)
- Naomi Carl (ASU Undergrad -> UCSB PhD)
- Ananya Kaalva (UT Austin Undergrad -> Oregon MS)
- Ale Ricci (UChicago Undergrad)
- Martin Che (UChicago Undergrad)
- Jasmin Mohammadi (UMD Undergrad)
- Snehil Vidyarthy (UChicago Undergrad)
- Rithika Tudmilla (UChicago Undergrad)
- Jarvis Zhang (UChicago Undergrad -> UChicago MS)
- Benjamin Cohen (UChicago Undergrad -> Princeton PhD)
- Ha Do (UChicago Undergrad -> JHU PhD)
- Selenna Meijas-Torres (UChicago Undergrad)
- Natalie Orrantia (UChicago Undergrad)
- Jacob Mascort (DePaul Undergrad)