Group

Joining our group:

I am currently accepting new students and postdocs to join my group at UC. If you are interested in joining as an UC undergraduate student please send me an email.
Prespective master’s and Ph.D. students, please apply to our program. The application deadline is typically at the end of July each year.

If you are interested in joining as a postdoctoral researcher, please take a look at the fellowships and programs that are typically available each year:

• Chilean national fellowship Fondecyt postdoctoral program. This requires having completed the Ph.D. by the time of application. The deadline is typically in September each year.
• ESO Comité Mixto postdoctoral program. The deadline is typically in July each year.
• ALMA postdoctoral fellowships

More information about postdoctoral resources at UC can be found here.

Please contact me if you are interested in joining the group.

Previously mentored students and postdocs:

• Richard Brooks (graduate student at University College London, now a postdoc at Boston University), as part of the pre-doctoral program at the Flatiron Institute in Fall 2024, which led to a publication: Brooks et al., 2025.
• Elise Darragh-Ford (graduate student at Stanford), Fall 2023–Summer 2024. I advised Elise on a research project that became part of the final chapter of her Ph.D. thesis and was later published in ApJ.
• Dr. Silvio Varela (graduate student at Universidad de La Serena, now an ALMA postdoc at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María). I am currently co-advising Silvio on a research project (paper in preparation).
• Arpit Arora (graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania). I co-advised Arpit on a series of papers for his Ph.D. thesis. See our papers here.
• Hayden Foote (graduate student at the University of Arizona). In Fall 2021, I co-advised Hayden on a research project in which he first proposed that the Segue 2 galaxy collided with the Cetus–Paca stream. This later led to Foote et al., 2025.
• Ludia Adhikary (undergraduate at CUNY), supervised through the AstroCOM CUNY/CCA program in New York City, Summer 2022–Summer 2023. Ludia presented her work at the CCA symposium and presented two posters: one at the SACNAS conference in 2022 and one at the Winter AAS meeting in 2023.
• Stephanie Carolina Cely Rodriguez (undergraduate at Universidad Nacional de Colombia). I advised Stephanie during the RECA summer program in Summer 2022. She successfully graduated in Summer 2023. A talk from the RECA symposium can be watched here.
• Andrew Eden (undergraduate at Florida Institute of Technology), Fall 2022–Fall 2023. I advised Andrew on his undergraduate thesis project.

Close collaborators:

I maintain close collaborations with:

• Dr. Ekta Patel (Villanova University)
• Dr. Gurtina Besla (University of Arizona)
• Dr. Arpit Arora (University of Washington)
• Dr. Richard Brooks (Boston University)
• Dr. Himnash Rathore (University of Arizona)
• Dr. Chervin Laporte (Paris Observatory)
• Dr. Facundo Gómez (Universidad de La Serena)
• Dr. Benedikt Diemer (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Dr. Julio Chanamé (PUC)
• Dr. Adrian Price-Whelan (Flatiron Institute)
• Dr. Emily Cunningham (Boston University)
• Dr. Kathryn V. Johnston (Columbia University)

Collaborations:

I am an active member of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration DESC and the Spec-S5 collaborations.