Curriculum Vitae:

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Publications:

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Highlighted Papers

• Shaping the Milky Way. II. The dark matter halo’s response to the LMC’s passage in a cosmological context. Darragh-Ford, E.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Arora, A.; Wechsler, R. H.; Mansfield, P.; Besla, G.; Petersen, M. S.; Weinberg, M. D.; Varela-Lavin, S.; Buch, D.; et al. arXiv, November 2025.

• Shaping the Milky Way: The Interplay of Mergers and Cosmic Filaments. Arora, A.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Sanderson, R. E.; Weinberg, M. D.; Petersen, M. S.; Varela-Lavin, S.; Gómez, F. A.; Johnston, K. V.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Shipp, N.; et al. ApJ, August 2025.

• The M31–M33 Interaction: Impact on M31’s Center-of-mass Motion and Satellite Orbits. Patel, E.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Escala, I. ApJ, May 2025.

• LMC Calls, Milky Way Halo Answers: Disentangling the Effects of the MW–LMC Interaction on Stellar Stream Populations. Brooks, R. A. N.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Johnston, K. V.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Sanders, J. L.; Lilleengen, S. ApJ, January 2025.

• On the Corotation of Milky Way Satellites: LMC-mass Satellites Induce Apparent Motions in Outer Halo Tracers. Garavito-Camargo, N.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Samuel, J.; Cunningham, E. C.; Patel, E.; Wetzel, A.; Johnston, K. V.; Arora, A.; Sanderson, R. E.; Garrison, L.; et al. ApJ, November 2024.

• LMC-driven Anisotropic Boosts in Stream–Subhalo Interactions. Arora, A.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Sanderson, R. E.; Cunningham, E. C.; Wetzel, A.; Panithanpaisal, N.; Barry, M. ApJ, October 2024.

• The Clustering of Orbital Poles Induced by the LMC: Hints for the Origin of Planes of Satellites. Garavito-Camargo, N.; Patel, E.; Besla, G.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Gómez, F. A.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Johnston, K. V. ApJ, December 2021.

• Quantifying the Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Structure of the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Halo Using Basis Function Expansions. Garavito-Camargo, N.; Besla, G.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Cunningham, E. C.; Johnston, K. V.; Weinberg, M.; Gómez, F. A. ApJ, October 2021.

• Quantifying the Stellar Halo’s Response to the LMC’s Infall with Spherical Harmonics. Cunningham, E. C.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Deason, A. J.; Johnston, K. V.; Erkal, D.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Besla, G.; Luger, R.; Sanderson, R. E. ApJ, July 2020.

• The Orbital Histories of Magellanic Satellites Using Gaia DR2 Proper Motions. Patel, E.; Kallivayalil, N.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Besla, G.; Weisz, D. R.; van der Marel, R. P.; Boylan-Kolchin, M.; Pawlowski, M. S.; Gómez, F. A. ApJ, April 2020.

• Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud. Garavito-Camargo, N.; Besla, G.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Johnston, K. V.; Gómez, F. A.; Watkins, L. L. ApJ, October 2019.

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Recent Papers

• Mapping the Distorted Dark Matter Distribution of the LMC-SMC System Prior to Milky Way Infall with Basis Function Expansions. Foote, H. R.; Rathore, H.; Besla, G.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Patel, E.; Petersen, M. S.; Weinberg, M. D.; Gómez, F. A.; Laporte, C. F. P. arXiv, January 2026.

• A simulation-based inference approach to the dynamics of the MW–LMC system — validation. Brooks, R. A. N.; Sanders, J. L.; Dillamore, A. M.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Price-Whelan, A. M. MNRAS, January 2026.

• Shaping the Milky Way. II. The dark matter halo’s response to the LMC’s passage in a cosmological context. Darragh-Ford, E.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Arora, A.; Wechsler, R. H.; Mansfield, P.; Besla, G.; Petersen, M. S.; Weinberg, M. D.; Varela-Lavin, S.; Buch, D.; et al. arXiv, November 2025.

• Stellar Birth Radii in the LMC: Insights into Chemodynamics, Radial Migration, and Star Formation Across the Disk. Lu, Y.; Garver, B.; Nidever, D. L.; Povick, J. T.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Cioni, M.-R. L.; Horta, D. arXiv, November 2025.

• The Milky Way – Large Magellanic Cloud Interaction with Simulation Based Inference. Brooks, R. A. N.; Sanders, J. L.; Chandra, V.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Dillamore, A. M.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Ting, Y.-S. arXiv, October 2025.

• Shaping the Milky Way: The Interplay of Mergers and Cosmic Filaments. Arora, A.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Sanderson, R. E.; Weinberg, M. D.; Petersen, M. S.; Varela-Lavin, S.; Gómez, F. A.; Johnston, K. V.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Shipp, N.; et al. ApJ, August 2025.

• All-sky Kinematics of the Distant Halo: The Reflex Response to the LMC. Chandra, V.; Naidu, R. P.; Conroy, C.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Laporte, C.; Bonaca, A.; Cargile, P. A.; Cunningham, E.; Han, J. J.; Johnson, B. D.; et al. ApJ, August 2025.

• The M31–M33 Interaction: Impact on M31’s Center-of-mass Motion and Satellite Orbits. Patel, E.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Escala, I. ApJ, May 2025.

• The All-sky Impact of the LMC on the Milky Way Circumgalactic Medium. Carr, C.; Bryan, G. L.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Besla, G.; Setton, D. J.; Johnston, K. V.; Su, K.-Y. ApJ, April 2025.

• The Distant Milky Way Halo from the Southern Hemisphere: Characterization of the LMC-induced Dynamical Friction Wake. Cavieres, M.; Chanamé, J.; Navarrete, C.; Ordenes-Briceño, Y.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Besla, G.; Hempel, M.; Vivas, A. K.; Gómez, F. ApJ, April 2025.

• Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Han, J. J.; El-Badry, K.; Lucchini, S.; Hernquist, L.; Brown, W.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Conroy, C.; Sari, R. ApJ, April 2025.

• Where do High-Velocity Dark Matter Particles come from in the Milky Way?. DeBrae, A.; Behroozi, P.; Garavito-Camargo, N. arXiv, February 2025.

• Segue 2 Recently Collided with the Cetus-Palca Stream: New Opportunities to Constrain Dark Matter in an Ultra-faint Dwarf. Foote, H. R.; Besla, G.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Patel, E.; Thomas, G. F.; Bonaca, A.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Peter, A. H. G.; Zaritsky, D.; Conroy, C. ApJ, February 2025.

• LMC Calls, Milky Way Halo Answers: Disentangling the Effects of the MW–LMC Interaction on Stellar Stream Populations. Brooks, R. A. N.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Johnston, K. V.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Sanders, J. L.; Lilleengen, S. ApJ, January 2025.