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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Mia de los Reyes
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioMia de los Reyes is a Stanford Science Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. She recently completed her PhD at Caltech, and prior to that was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge. As an observational astronomer, she uses low-mass galaxies in the nearby universe to answer the question: "Where did we come from?"
Starting in Fall 2023, she will be an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Amherst College!
Outside of research, she enjoys rock climbing, doing aerial silks, and eating baked goods. -
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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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. -
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.
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Mehrnoosh Tahani
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioMehrnoosh Tahani currently holds a Canadian Banting fellowship hosted at Stanford University and a KIPAC fellowship. She was a research associate (Covington fellow) with the National Research Council Canada at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory from Sep 2019 to Sep 2022. She received her PhD in 2019 from the University of Calgary.
Her research interests include magnetic fields, molecular clouds, star formation, Faraday rotation, dust polarization, interstellar medium, radio astronomy, magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the 3D shape of magnetic fields of star-forming clouds, and novel techniques for probing interstellar magnetic fields. She is involved in international collaborations such as BISTRO, CCAT-prime, JCMT-transients, and POSSUM.
Mehrnoosh has held teaching positions as a sessional instructor, guest lecturer, and graduate teaching assistant, and has received teaching awards. Her current service roles include co-organizing the Open Cultural Astronomy Forum seminars (ocaf.pbworks.com) and serving on the scientific organizing committee for the 2023 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA 2023; she was previously a member of online organizing committee of CASCA 2021).
Publication list: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/3whtBFLQRRW_e_qRFf9Z-g -
Lin Xin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioLin Xin is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Physics Department at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, following undergraduate studies at Shanghai Jiaotong University. His current research centers on advancing optical control of interactions among laser-cooled atoms, with an eye towards applications in quantum simulation, metrology, and computation. He has developed protocols in quantum optimal control for entanglement-enhanced eigenstates in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates.
