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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Allan Hornstrup
Associate Professor
Head of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics and ass. prof. at the Cosmic Dawn Center, DTU Space.
Aswin P Vijayan
DAWN Fellow
Simulations of galaxy formation, high-z galaxies, dust, photometry
Birgitta Nordström
Associate Professor Emerita
Star formation, nucleosynthesis, and general chemical and dynamical evolution of the Galactic disk.
Charlotte Mason
Associate Professor
Galaxy formation & evolution, Reionization, and the galaxy-dark matter connection in the early Universe.
Daniele Bjørn Malesani
Postdoc
Interests: gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts, transients, observations.
Dave Sanders
Long-Term Guest
My current research is primarily in the area of infrared-submillimeter observations of interacting/merging galaxies, their evolutionary connection wit
Francesca Rizzo
DAWN/INTERACTIONS Fellow
Galaxy evolution; Galaxy dynamics; Gravitational lensing
Francesco Valentino
Assistant Professor
Galaxy evolution, star formation, and quenching. Carlsberg Fellow.
Gabriel Brammer
Associate Professor
Galaxy evolution with space telescopes.
Georgios Magdis
Associate Professor
Galaxy formation and evolution, observational cosmology, ISM
Guarn Elizabeth Nissen
Senior Coordinator
Senior coordinator at the Cosmic Dawn Center
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
John R. Weaver
PhD Student
Galaxy evolution, assembly, and star-formation cessation. Catalog maker. Citizen science enthusiast.
Meghana Killi
PhD Student
High z, galaxy evolution, oddities and anomalies, LAE, Lya, compact galaxies, morphology, HST, ALMA
Nina Bonaventura
Postdoc
JWST/NIRSpec GTO Team member. Algorithms & scientific software dev. Galaxy formation & evolution.
Peter Johannsen
Student Helper
Tasks include: website maintenance and keeping the kitchen clean.
Peter Laursen
Astrophysicist and Science Communicator
Galaxy modeling, Lyman α radiative transfer, outreach, press releases+contact, news stories, webmaster, event coordination, …
Seiji Fujimoto
DAWN/INTERACTIONS Fellow
distant galaxies and quasars; observations with JWST, HST, Subaru, Keck, VLT, ALMA, NOEMA, JVLA
Steven Gillman
Postdoc
High redshift galaxy evolution, star-forming galaxies, kinematics, morphology, JWST MIRI GTO
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.
Vadim Rusakov
PhD Student
Galaxy assembly and quenching, stellar populations, general interest in machine learning tools.
Victoria Strait
DAWN Fellow
High redshift galaxy properties, Epoch of Reionization