School of Humanities and Sciences
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Sebastian Baum
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioI am a theoretical physicist working on Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) particle physics phenomenology. In particular, I am interested in using particle colliders to probe BSM models via their Higgs sector and in unraveling the nature of Dark Matter via model building and experimental probes such as Direct Detection type experiments.
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Simon Birrer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research focus on dark matter and dark energy. I am using strong gravitational lensing to probe the imprint of dark matter on the structure in our universe and measuring the expansion rate of our universe with time-delay cosmography to probe dark energy.
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Adi Foord
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioI am a Porat Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University. My research is focused on high-energy astrophysics, where I analyze X-ray activity in space using observations taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. I study a variety of supermassive black hole environments in order to understand which factors are critical to their evolution. Most of my day is spent searching for dual AGN and studying their activity.
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Neil Goeckner-Wald
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioKavli Postdoctoral Fellow working on experimental CMB cosmology.
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Yonatan Israel
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. Quantum optics of free electrons and light: generation and control of quantum states, quantum measurements and metrology.
2. Optical and electron microscopy: super-resolution, phase microscopy, holography, biological imaging, and quantum enhanced microscopy. -
Raghu Mahajan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests are wide-ranging:
1) In the context of gravity, how does spacetime emerge from its dual quantum system? How does the dual quantum system encode the answers to questions that involve local physics in semi-classical gravity? How do you avoid the "firewall" paradox in the context of black-hole evaporation?
2) How do you calculate electrical and heat currents in strongly-coupled many-body systems? How do you explain the linear-in-temperature resistivity in high-temperature cuprates?
3) Use tensor network methods to study electrical and heat transport and also the real-time dynamics of systems out of thermal equilibrium. -
Meredith Powell
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioI am a Porat Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). I research the growth of supermassive black holes and how they co-evolve with the galaxies and dark matter halos that host them.
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Davide Racco
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in topics at the crossover between Particle Physics and Cosmology, focusing in particular on dark matter, gravitational waves, non-Gaussianities, Higgs metastability and early universe.
My main area of interest is Dark Matter, and I have worked on various classes of candidates, ranging from WIMPs (particles with masses and interaction strengths comparable to the Standard Model particles, who are currently the target of many experimental searches) to Primordial Black Holes (hypothetical black holes that could have formed in the early history of the Universe) and axions (particles which would also solve the strong CP problem in particle physics).
Concerning the production mechanism for Dark Matter, I have been studying gravitational production during inflation, which is a well-motivated and minimal scenario and can guide the identification of benchmarks for direct detection.
I am also very interested in stochastic backgrounds of primordial gravitational waves. Their potential discovery would disclose precious information on the cosmology of the early universe, and the particle content at high energy scales. -
Taweewat Somboonpanyakul
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher at Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). I have graduated my PhD in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and my bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Chicago.
