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 a master’s or Ph.D. student, 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.