Leader of a group of 11 faculty, 10 PhD researchers, 35 PhD students, and numerous undergraduate researchers.The Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA) is part of the Georgia Tech’s School of Physics and the College of Sciences. Our mission is to provide students with an outstanding education and training and to foster a vibrant and diverse environment for transformative research and innovative thinking. CRA researchers are engaged in investigations ranging from the large scale… Show more Leader of a group of 11 faculty, 10 PhD researchers, 35 PhD students, and numerous undergraduate researchers.The Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA) is part of the Georgia Tech’s School of Physics and the College of Sciences. Our mission is to provide students with an outstanding education and training and to foster a vibrant and diverse environment for transformative research and innovative thinking. CRA researchers are engaged in investigations ranging from the large scale structure in the early universe to particle interactions. In between these extremes are black holes, and mergers of compact objects. Closer to our home in the Milky Way are exoplanets and stars. Our particular strengths are multi-messenger astrophysics with neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves, and computational astrophysics.CRA researchers are active participants in major international collaborations, involved in operations and development of existing and future detectors, including the IceCube neutrino observatory, the LIGO and LISA gravitational wave observatories, X-ray observatories NuSTAR and Athena, and gamma-ray detectors VERITAS and CTA. Show less

Leader of a group of 15. Mentored 6 postdoctoral fellows, 13 graduate students, and 26 undergraduate students. Published 80+ refereed journal articles (including 3 in Nature journals) and presented 70+ international invited talks. Effective teacher in introductory, upper division, and graduate physics courses. Recipient of the Dunn Family Professorship (2015-2019), Immel Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015), Hesburgh Teaching Fellowship (2017), and Best Visualization Award in the SC17… Show more Leader of a group of 15. Mentored 6 postdoctoral fellows, 13 graduate students, and 26 undergraduate students. Published 80+ refereed journal articles (including 3 in Nature journals) and presented 70+ international invited talks. Effective teacher in introductory, upper division, and graduate physics courses. Recipient of the Dunn Family Professorship (2015-2019), Immel Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015), Hesburgh Teaching Fellowship (2017), and Best Visualization Award in the SC17 Conference.• Led the Birth of a Galaxy paper series disseminating the first simulations that linked the first metal-free stars to the first generations of galaxies, providing a high-resolution view of their formation.• Co-led the Renaissance Simulations project that followed over 3,000 “first galaxies” forming within a billion years after the Big Bang and produced mock observations for JWST.• Awarded $11.1M in funding ($3.7M as PI) from NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics, NSF Advanced Cyber-Infrastructure, NSF MRI, NASA Astrophysics Theory, and the Hubble Theory programs.• Awarded 597M core-hours ($7.4M equivalent) on NSF and NASA computing resources. Show less

National fellowship winner, pursuing independent research on algorithmic developments in radiative transfer and their applications in galaxy simulations. Published 6 refereed journal articles and presented 18 international invited talks. Top contributor to the widely-used, open-source astrophysics simulation code, Enzo.

National fellowship winner, pursing independent research on the connections between the “first stars” and “first galaxies”. Team member in the JWST group and numerical relativity group. Published 5 refereed journal articles and presented 7 international invited talks.