I am a DAWN / EU co-fund INTERACTIONS fellow based at the Cosmic Dawn Center. I received my BCs (2014), MSc (2016), and PhD (2019) degrees from the University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Prof. Masami Ouchi. The thesis title was “Demographics of Cold Universe with ALMA: From Inter-stellar and Circum-galactic Media to Cosmic Structures”. I carried out a large statistical study for the rest-frame far-infrared properties in high-redshift galaxies. After my PhD, I worked at the University of Waseda with Prof. Akio Inoue as an ALMA project researcher. I moved to Copenhagen in December 2019. My research interest is the early Universe, including the topics of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies and black holes, the structure formation, and the interplay between a galaxy and its environment.  I’m working in large international collaborations of e.g., “The ALMA Large Program to Investigate CII at Early Times (ALPINE)”,  “ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS)”,  and “Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP)”. I also work as one of the external collaborators in the cosmology group in Scuola Normale Superiore headed by Prof. Andrea Ferrara.

I am a PhD student at the Cosmic Dawn Centre working under the supervision of Georgios Magdis. I am currently studying the interstellar medium of galaxies across cosmic time using data from the ALMA telescope. The main goal is to measure the amount of gas left on quiescent/dead galaxies in order to place constraints on the mechanisms that prevent them from forming new stars. I received my master’s degree in Earth and Space Physics and Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark in 2021, after having completed my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (2019) at Tecnun - Universidad de Navarra in San Sebastian (Spain), where I am originally from. In my spare time I love practicing sports such as football, bouldering or swimming. I also enjoy swimming in very cold water, for which Denmark is a perfect place.

I am a postdoc working at DAWN and DTU Space. Starting my thesis at CEA Paris-Saclay in 2015, I obtained my PhD degree in 2018 at Nanjing University in China. I am interested in high redshift galaxies and galaxy clusters, aiming to understand how they form and the evolve. I specialize on deep multi-wavelength photometric catalogs and ISM properties in distant dusty galaxies with an emphasis on infrared, (sub)mm and radio observations.

I am a postdoc working at the astronomy department of the Radboud University in Nijmegen (the Netherlands). At the same time, the Cosmic Dawn Center is graciously hosting me for 50% of my time.

I am an observational astronomer, interested in the field of transients. These are objects that vary catastrophically in the sky. Many are related to the deaths of stars, such as supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Kilonovae are a newly discovered type of transients, connected to gravitational wave sources, originated when orbiting pairs of compact stars (black holes and neutron stars) smash against each other and merge, usually forming a (bigger) black hole.

Transients can be very bright, and while they're active we can see them further away in the universe. As such, they are important probes of their environments. For example, gamma-ray bursts allow to test the composition of the medium of high-redshift galaxies. Kilonovae are an important site where elements heavier than iron are produced: everybody's jewelry may come from a pair of colliding neutron stars.

I am involved in international programs, such as the Stargate and ENGRAVE consortia, aimed at exploiting every aspect of these transient sources.

I am a first year PhD student at the Cosmic Dawn Centre. I received a first class honours in my integrated masters (MPhys) in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Sussex. Here I also undertook three summer research placements/internships, where I worked on a JWST proposal for parallel observations of high redshift galaxies, using NIRCAM. My masters work resulted in developing a pure python source extractor, named Automated Source Extractor and Photometry (ASEP) with the use of Numpy and Photutils. ASEP was then used to create a source catalogue of the sources in the HUDF/XDF. Here I learnt about the basics of source extractors and selection of high redshift galaxies with the use of colour-colour criteria. During my PhD I hope to further build my knowledge of high redshift galaxies, galaxy evolution and the epoch of reionization. My work will allow me to study the most luminous, massive and rare galaxies in the early universe and their properties, morphologies and contribution to reionization. The highest density regions of the Universe are expected to be the first to collapse in the early universe, and therefore be the sites for the formation of the first galaxies. The most massive and luminous galaxies are expected to form in these regions, and intense UV radiation from their young stars and from smaller galaxies in their vicinity is expected to carve out the first reionized bubbles in the overall neutral IGM.  Wide area surveys are needed to study these regions, which will hopefully lead me to work on data from Hubble, JWST, Euclid and Subaru/Hypersuprimecam.  I am excited for my next few years as a PhD student at DAWN and I can't wait for the research I am able to produce.

Hello! I am a PhD student at the Cosmic Dawn center. I finished both my MSc and Bachellor's at my home city, Santiago de Chile, at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where I focused most of my research on young galaxies near the epoch of reionization and the intersection between Lymab Break Galaxies and Lyman Alpha Emitters. In my PhD at DAWN, I will be working with Charlotte Mason as my advisor on the topics of the timeline of Reionization and the morphology of ionized bubbles during Reionization, all of these through the observation and modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters. I also enjoy drawing and listening to music in my spare time.

I am a PhD student at DAWN, supervised by Gabriel Brammer and Darach Watson. My research interest lies in studying the early Universe, how it differs from the present Universe, and how one evolved into the other. I am especially fascinated by unusual or puzzling observations that require new ideas and physics to explain.

I currently work on Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) at high redshift. For my Master's thesis (2021), I studied compact LAEs observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (ACS G800L grism). The aim was to understand why they are compact. I am now expanding upon this work.

During my Bachelor's in Astronomy (2016-2018) at the University of Texas at Austin, I worked with Caitlin Casey on multiplicity observed in ALMA galaxies.

Research projects:

Nucleosynthesis in the early Galaxy

• First stars and the first supernovae

Formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy

• Star formation and nucleosynthesis in the galactic disk
• Chemical and dynamical evolution in the galactic disk

ORCID: 0000-0001-6023-4288

Nikki is a DARKer. Her interests are: Cosmology, Hubble tension, extensions to LCDM, cluster mass estimation, gravitationally lensed quasars & supernovae, machine learning.

Axel is a DARKer. His interests are: Galactic dynamics, dynamical mass measurements, Gaia, dark matter particle phenomenology, dark matter capture by the Sun

Anne is a DARKer. Her interests are: Circum-galactic medium Molecular gas in galaxies, Absorption-selected galaxies, Cosmic evolution of molecular gas and dust, Multi-wavelength observations of absorption-selected galaxies and AGN, Active Galactic Nuclei physics and evolution, Supermassive black holes in AGN and black hole mass determinations

I am an associate professor of extragalactic astrophysics and co-founder of the Cosmic DAWN Center. Additionally, I am leading a research group, funded by my Villum Young Investigator and Villum Young Investigator PLUS grants, focusing on the study of galaxies across cosmic time and aiming to shed light on the formation, growth, and evolution of the building blocks of our Universe from the Big Bang to the present day. I specialise on deep multi-wavelength cosmological surveys with an emphasis on infrared/radio observations exploiting the best space telescopes and the most powerful ground-based astronomical facilities. You can find more by visiting my website.

I am a PhD student working at the Cosmic Dawn Center advised by Gabriel Brammer. I currently study the formation and evolution of the most massive galaxies in the universe, using a combination of data from ground and space based telescopes across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. I received my Master’s in Astrophysics in 2020 from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where I worked with Vivienne Wild, measuring the morphologies of low z post-starburst galaxies.

Before deciding to study galaxies, I was interested in particle and astroparticle physics, and had fantastic opportunities to work on experimental projects relating to both cosmic rays and neutrinos at Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics and later CERN. I’ve also been lucky enough to do both cosmology and galaxy summer research projects at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation and the University of Oxford.

When I’m not doing research I enjoy powerlifting, growing plants, drawing, making music, exploring Copenhagen and playing video games (but not all at the same time!).  My pronouns are she/hers.

I am a PhD student based at the Cosmic Dawn Center advised by Sune Toft, with Peter Capak (IPAC), Henry McCracken (IAP), and Dave Sanders (IfA). I received my Masters degree in 2018 from the University of St Andrews advised by Vivienne Wild. My research focuses on the assembly and evolution of galaxies across the 1.37 billion year history of our Universe, through direct observation with optical and infrared telescopes from both space and from the ground. I am the leader of the COSMOS2020 galaxy catalogue, and a key contributor to the Cosmic Dawn Survey. Previously, I have interned as a summer researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Leiden Observatory, and the Maria Mitchell Observatory. I am also the project director of the spectroscopy database at the American Association of Variable Star Observers. Beyond academia, I am a frequent contributor to popular science publications, and have been a long-time volunteer at public observatories.

I am an Associate Professor at the Cosmic Dawn Center in the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. I received my PhD degree from Yale University in 2010, and prior to coming to DAWN I was a postdoctoral Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (Chile) and an ESA/AURA Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland (USA). I study the formation and evolution of galaxies across much of cosmic time, from relatively nearby massive, evolved objects to infant galaxies at the current limit of the observable Universe. I discover and characterize these objects by and exploiting large imaging and spectroscopic surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope, and I am helping to develop next-generation projects with the Guaranteed Time Observer and Early Release Science programs on the James Webb Space Telescope, due to be launched in 2021.

​ I am a Dawn/Interactions fellow at the Cosmic Dawn Center. I received my BCs (2013) and MSc (2016) at the University of Pisa and Bologna, respectively. In 2020, I received my PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany) under the supervision of Dr. Simona Vegetti and Prof. Simon White at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching (Germany). During my PhD I developed a tool that allows to use gravitational lensing for studying distant galaxies. I am interested in the ways in which galaxies form and evolve across cosmic time. In particular, my research focuses on galactic dynamics, that is the analysis of the motion of gas and/or stars within galaxies. Through this kind of study, I learn how different physical processes shaped the variety of galaxies that we observe today. You can find more about my research here. I have long been committed to diversity and acted to create an academic environment which is more inclusive and inviting towards different gender, sexual orientation, ethnic, and socioeconomically underprivileged groups. For this reason, I enjoy giving my contribution to public outreach events.

My degree at the Cosmic Dawn Center is centered around topics in galaxy evolution, where I am advised by Charles Steinhardt. I am part of research into mechanisms driving the active and quiescent stages of high-redshift galaxies, which is motivated by a mismatch in theoretical predictions and observations of galaxy assembly in the early universe. I am also keen to work on computational problems in research. I received a Masters degree from the University of Surrey in 2019 studying galaxy evolution in the Local Group with Carme Gallart & Matteo Monelli, while spending part of my degree at the IAC (Canary islands), and a Masters degree from University College London in 2020 doing a project in computational astrophysics with Thomas Greve.

I am a DAWN post-doc working with Dr. Peter Jakobsen on the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a joint mission of NASA and the European and Canadian Space Agencies.  As a member of the NIRSpec Guaranteed-Time Observer (GTO) Team, I participate in the development of algorithms and associated software to scientifically optimize and analyze observations taken in the NIRSpec Multi-object Spectroscopy (MOS) mode, as well as prepare for the scientific analysis of the MOS component of the GTO JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) campaign.  I am also involved in a number of additional studies of galaxy formation and evolution, which include the measurement and characterization of the optical, infrared, and X-ray emission of starlight, dust, and gas in intermediate to very high redshift galaxies; as well as the application of machine learning techniques to state-of-the-art mock galaxy observations to learn their dark matter distribution.

I am a third year bachelor student at the University of Copenhagen, currently writing my thesis. I am interested in condensed matter physics; specifically focussing on reflectometry of quantum dots at the moment. This March I started as the new student helper at DAWN, and my role is primarily overseeing the websites, but I will also be helping Guarn and Helena as much as I can, with different administrative tasks. In my free time I play disc golf and dedicate many hours to bouldering (when the halls are open that is). I’ve played the piano for many years and enjoy travelling through Europe on my bicycle.

I am a PhD fellow at the Cosmic Dawn Center, advised by Gabriel Brammer. I am currently working on the effects of having spatially resolved observations when deriving the physical properties of galaxies, using recently obtained photometry from the Hubble Space Telescope. With high-resolution line emission maps of nearby galaxies, we can probe sites of ongoing star formation activity and dust reddening. In the coming future, I am particularly interested in extending this study to galaxies at high redshift with JWST.

I am a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with the Cosmic Dawn Center and the University of Iceland, specialized in observational extragalactic astronomy. I received my PhD from the University of Iceland in 2019, with my thesis project mainly focusing on using gamma-ray bursts and quasars as cosmic probes to study the interstellar medium in high-redshift galaxies. Now, I mainly work on the optical counterparts and host galaxies of astronomical transients such as fast radio bursts and gravitational wave events, to better understand these extreme sources. Additionally, I develop new techniques to identity quasars based on the astrometric measurements of the Gaia satellite, to provide a more unbiased census of the quasar population and foreground absorption-line systems. The overarching goal of these projects is to study and track the chemical enrichment of galaxies through cosmic time. I am also involved in the development of a new instrument for the Nordic Optical Telescope as instrument scientist.

I am an assistant professor and an observational astronomer based at the Cosmic Dawn Center. I study the evolution of massive galaxies from their initial formation epoch to the last stages of their lives by exploiting the capabilities of powerful telescopes covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum. I am particularly interested in how gas is transformed into stars and how galaxies stop growing and die, halting the formation of new stars. This is the core of my “Galaxies: Rise And Death” (GRAD) project supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cosmic Dawn Center, National Space Institute (DTU-Space), Denmark. My research focuses on the formation and evolution of high-redshift galaxies. I am part of the MIRI GTO team working on the JWST MIRI Deep Imaging Survey that will take the deepest image of the HUDF at 5.6 microns. Other areas of my research include using integral field spectroscopy and high-resolution imaging to trace the ionized interstellar medium on ~kpc scales and quantify the kinematic and morphological evolution of star-forming galaxies from Cosmic Noon (z~2) to the present day.

Astronomer (at present Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow) investigating galaxy evolution with optical and infra-red images but also with a foot into cosmological simulations. Love to follow the entire scientific process from data reduction to physical interpretation, but this works only in an ideal world. Strong opponent of "observer vs. theoretician" dichotomy and passionate advocate of inter-disciplinary studies (especially machine learning applications).

Fields of interest

In random order:

• baryon-dark matter relationship in galaxy formation
• galaxy quenching
• large-scale galaxy environment
• innovative methods for data mining and galaxy classification
• innovative methods to measure/define galaxy physical/statistical properties

I am an astronomy professor based at the Cosmic Dawn Center at the Niels Bohr Institute. I received my master’s degree in 1998 and PhD degree in 2000 from the University of Aarhus advised by Bjarne Thomsen and Palle Møller. Before taking up my current position at the Niels Bohr Institute I worked at the European Southern Observatory headquarters in Germany. My research focuses on the assembly and evolution of galaxies across the history of the Universe, through direct observation with optical and infrared telescopes from both space and the ground. My particular interests are chemical evolution, quasar absorption line systems, and transient sources like gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, gravitational wave sources and fast radio bursts. I am also involved in the development of new instrumentation. I teach a range of courses in astronomy ranging from introductory astronomy courses to master level courses. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Aarhus, I also teach a summer course in astronomical observations at the Nordic Optical Observatory on La Palma. Beyond academia, I am a frequent contributor to public outreach, I am vice chairman of the Danish Astronomical Society and I give many public talks on science.

I am a PhD student at DAWN DTU who formerly defended my MSc at KU, DAWN NBI. My thesis focuses on reverberation mapping of AGN, so as to use them as Distance measurements. As part of my PhD at DAWN, I am working with Thomas Greve on characterizing the dense molecular gas content in gravitationally lensed starburst and normal galaxies and relate these results to surveys of the dense interstellar medium in local galaxies, as well as locating and characterizing protoclusters in the COSMOS field.

I am a PhD student at the Cosmic Dawn Center advised by Johan Fynbo, and in addition I collaborate with him as a member of the NOT Transient Explorer (NTE) development team.    In my PhD, I will demonstrate performance of a new type of echelle spectrograph and its use for astronomical observations. I do this by characterizing the airglow continuum emission, or interline sky background, in the near-IR wavelengths observable with a CCD detector (down to ~1µm). This measurement is highly relevant for the future astronomical observation, especially, with the Extremely Large Telescope (ELTs) which will be solely sky limited.   Prior to joining the team at the Cosmic Dawn Center, I have completed a research studentship at the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) working with the development of NTE. I have graduated from an MSc program at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, where I designed and built the prototype spectrograph used in the PhD as my MSc thesis.

I am excited to join DAWN as an associate professor in 2021. I obtained my PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, in 2018, after which I moved to the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian as a NASA Hubble Fellow and CfA Fellow. I work at the intersection of theory and observations, focusing on galaxy formation and evolution, and the galaxy - dark matter connection, in the early Universe. My research combines theoretical models and simulations with statistical analysis to interpret observations of galaxies. In particular, I have focused on finding new ways to measure the process of hydrogen reionization - the Universe’s final phase transition, which ended approximately one billion years after the Big Bang and was likely caused by the very first stars and galaxies. By understanding how reionization occurred we can infer the properties of the universe’s first galaxies, which are probably too rare and faint to detect directly. I am involved with (mostly near-IR) observations from our largest telescopes in space and on the ground: Hubble, VLT, Keck, and MMT, and I am excited to be among the first users of the James Webb Space Telescope in a Early Release Science program to observe the earliest galaxies.

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Geneva, where I lead a research group “Galaxy Build-up at Cosmic Dawn”. Additionally, I was an International Associate of the Cosmic Dawn Centre from the beginning. I am excited to now officially join DAWN as an Associate Professor as well. I obtained my PhD in 2010 from ETH Zurich, after which I moved to UC Santa Cruz as a Hubble Fellow (2010-2013) and then to Yale as a YCAA Fellow (2013-2016). My research is focused on understanding the build-up and assembly of the first generations of galaxies based on panchromatic observations. In particular, I use very deep imaging and spectroscopy from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, in addition to ground-based follow-up with Keck, VLT, ALMA, and NOEMA. This allows us to trace the galaxy mass build-up out to z~11, when the Universe was only ~400 Myr old, where we have found the most distant galaxy known so far: GN-z11. I am looking forward to exploit the upcoming, revolutionary data from JWST to expand our cosmic frontier even further and to study lots of GN-z11 analogues from the deep, wide-area imaging to be obtained with ESA/Euclid.

My interests are focused on cosmology, including the large scale structure of the universe; on space instrumentation and space research in general.  I also fancy exoplanetary studies, including the search for extraterrestrial life.  I enjoy physics, teaching, public outreach and management. In cosmology, I have studied clusters of galaxies in general (the content) and in particular worked on using clusters of galaxies for cosmological purposes e.g. through the cluster development with time. Since 2007, I have been head of astrophysics at DTU Space and later included atmospheric physics. The group has grown from about a dozen to now almost 60 scientists and technicians.  I hold a MSc in astrophysics, a PhD in technical physics and an executive MBA.

I am an Associate Professor at the National Space Institute of Denmark, where I am heading the Cosmic Dawn Center.  I obtained my PhD in 2005 from the Institute for Astronomy Edinburgh.  I am currently on leave of absence from University College London where I have been an associate professor since 2012. Prior to that I have held research positions at the California Institute of Technology and the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy. My research deals with the origin and evolution of massive galaxies. I study them using radio and optical telescopes on the ground and in space. Interfacing with numerical simulations is an important part of this work. I enjoy teaching, supervising students, as well as public outreach. I am extremely proud and excited to have established the Cosmic Dawn Center together with an amazing group of colleagues and friends.  What started out as a dream is now an actual research center brimming with fantastic scientists, administrators, and students.

Providing administrative support to enable and enhance groundbreaking scientific research for DAWN and our collaborating partners is very exciting. With focus on creating and maintaining a scientific and social environment that encourages innovative thinking and well-being, I enjoy witnessing scientific discoveries. I have held the position of Coordinator for the Genotoxic Stress Center of Excellence (GSC) at the Danish Cancer Society. Like DAWN, GSC was also primarily funded by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF). I have a BcS degree from Fontbonne University in St. Louis MO.

I am an astrophysicist and science communicator.

At DAWN, my tasks include communicating our science to the public, arranging workshops, coordinating other scientific activities, maintaining our website, as well as conducting my own research.

My research focuses on galaxies, in particular the light coming from processes that have to do with galaxy formation. I use computer simulations to predict and interpret "real" observations. More specifically, I use hydrodynamical simulations with (Monte Carlo) Lyman α radiative transfer.

After my PhD I was a postdoc at the Oskar Klein Centre (U. of Stockholm), the Dark Cosmology Centre (U. of Copenhagen), and the Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy section (U. of Oslo).

You can find out more about me, my research, and my outreach activities on my personal website.

I am a professor of Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute. I received my BSc (1998), MSc (2000) and PhD (2003) degrees from the Niels Bohr Institute, under supervision of Jens Hjorth.

I spent 5 years abroad as a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University (with Pieter van Dokkum) and an independent ESO fellow at the European Southern Observatory headquarters in Germany. Since 2009 I have led a research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, funded by a Lundbeck Junior Group Leader fellowship (2009-2014) an ERC consolidator grant (2015-2020), and a DNRF center of excellence grant (2018-2024).

My research focuses on the understanding the cosmic origin and evolution of galaxies, primarily through observations with the largest ground and space-based observatories. I am part of several major international research teams, including COSMOS (member of the Scientific Steering Committee), Euclid (Co-lead of the Primeval Universe Working Group), Ultravista (core-member), Hawaii-Two-0 (CoI), Euclid/WFIRST Spitzer Legacy Survey (CoI), BUFFALO (CoI), RELICS (CoI), ALPINE (CoI).

Since 2009 I have taught the undergraduate course “Cosmology”, and supervised postdoc and student research projects on all levels (BSc, MSc, PhD).