short CV

publications:

Google Scholar
NASA ADS
INSPIRE
arXiv

public codes:

HyRec
SpDust
DMDIST

I am broadly interested in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, with a focus on analytic work. As a cosmologist, I work on understanding the implications of various dark-matter candidates and initial conditions on cosmological observables, such as the cosmic microwave background and large-scale-structure. I am also interested in gravity and gravitational waves, and have also worked on interstellar spinning dust grains and large molecules.

Teaching and pedagogical materials

- Undergraduate-level mathematical physics (taught spring 2019, 20 and 23): lecture notes (please report typos).

- Graduate-level general relativity: fall 2019, fall 2018, fall 2017

- Excerpts from my Warner Prize talk at the June 2019 AAS meeting, with illustrations and movies about cosmological recombination and the CMB.

- Lectures on the cosmic microwave background given at Fudan University, Shanghai (2/26/17 to 3/3/17):

Lecture 1: introduction, general concepts
Lecture 2: recombination, the Boltzmann equation, the thermalization problem
Lecture 3: perturbed Boltzmann equation, introduction to polarization and parameter estimation