The DAWN family comprises both permanent and temporary staff. At any time, some 40 local scientists and student are found at UCPH and DTU. In addition, we have around 10 affiliated scientists at various institutions around the world.
All staff and students are seen below in a random order. Use the filter buttons to look for specific groups, and click images for more details.
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Sune Toft
Center director
Professor of Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics and center director of the Cosmic Dawn Center.
Thomas R. Greve
Professor, Center Co-Director
Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, and center co-director.
Georgios Magdis
Associate Professor & Center deputy director
Galaxy formation and evolution, observational cosmology, ISM
Helena Baungaard-Sørensen
Section Secretary
My main tasks are to provide with administrative assistance to the DAWN team. I enjoy working with passionate people and dedicated scientists and to b...
Johan Fynbo
Professor
I am a professor at the Cosmic Dawn Center at the Niels Bohr Institute. I work on galaxy formation, quasar surveys, transient astrophysics, and develo...
Charlotte Mason
Associate Professor
Galaxy formation & evolution, Reionization, and the galaxy-dark matter connection in the early Universe.
Gabriel Brammer
Associate Professor
Galaxy evolution with space telescopes.
Francesco Valentino
Senior Researcher
Galaxy evolution, star formation, and quenching.
Allan Hornstrup
Associate Professor
Head of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics and ass. prof. at the Cosmic Dawn Center, DTU Space.
Victoria Strait
DAWN Fellow
High redshift galaxy properties, Epoch of Reionization
Steven Gillman
Postdoc
High redshift galaxy evolution, star-forming galaxies, kinematics, morphology, JWST MIRI GTO
Conor McPartland
Postdoc
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. I use galaxy morphology and optical/near-IR spectroscopy to study the relati...
Kei Ito
DAWN Fellow
High redshift galaxy evolution, galaxy quenching, protoclusters.
Anne Hutter
DAWN Fellow
Galaxy formation and evolution, Reionisation, 21cm signal, Lyman-alpha emitters, modelling & simulations.
Jasleen Matharu
DAWN Fellow
I am a DAWN Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. I will be assisting in building the necessary software to process JWST Slitl...
Peter Laursen
Astrophysicist and Science Communicator
Galaxy modeling, Lyman α radiative transfer, outreach, press releases+contact, news stories, webmaster, event coordination, …
Katherine E. Whitaker
Associate Professor
Studies massive galaxy formation and evolution over cosmic time, with a focus on quenching.
Daniele Bjørn Malesani
Postdoc
Interests: gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts, transients, observations.
Joris Witstok
DAWN Fellow
Galaxy formation and evolution, early build-up of metals and dust, Cosmic Reionisation
Birgitta Nordström
Associate Professor Emerita
Star formation, nucleosynthesis, and general chemical and dynamical evolution of the Galactic disk.
Aayush Arya
PhD Student
Nucleosynthesis of heavy elements and their identification in the spectra of kilonovae.
Nikolaj Bjerregaard Sillassen
PhD Student
Formation and evolution of large-scale structures, star-forming galaxies, and starburst galaxies.
Rashmi Gottumukkala
PhD Fellow
Stellar mass build-up in the first galaxies; massive, dusty and quiescent galaxies at high redshifts