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
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
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
Assistant Professor
Galaxy evolution, star formation, and quenching. Carlsberg Fellow.
Allan Hornstrup
Associate Professor
Head of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics and ass. prof. at the Cosmic Dawn Center, DTU Space.
Francesca Rizzo
DAWN/INTERACTIONS Fellow
Galaxy evolution; Galaxy dynamics; Gravitational lensing
Seiji Fujimoto
DAWN/INTERACTIONS Fellow
distant galaxies and quasars; observations with JWST, HST, Subaru, Keck, VLT, ALMA, NOEMA, JVLA
Victoria Strait
DAWN Fellow
High redshift galaxy properties, Epoch of Reionization
Aswin P Vijayan
DAWN Fellow
Simulations of galaxy formation, high-z galaxies, dust, photometry
Nina Bonaventura
Alumna (Postdoc)
JWST/NIRSpec GTO Team member. Algorithms & scientific software dev. Galaxy formation & evolution.
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
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, …
Daniele Bjørn Malesani
Postdoc
Interests: gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts, transients, observations.
Birgitta Nordström
Associate Professor Emerita
Star formation, nucleosynthesis, and general chemical and dynamical evolution of the Galactic disk.
Meghana Killi
PhD Student
High z, galaxy evolution, oddities and anomalies, LAE, Lya, compact galaxies, morphology, HST, ALMA
Vadim Rusakov
PhD Student
Galaxy assembly and quenching, stellar populations, general interest in machine learning tools.
Peter Johannsen
Student Helper
Tasks include: website maintenance and keeping the kitchen clean.