Roohi Dalal Email & Phone Number

I am an astronomer working to advance security and sustainability in outer space. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Outer Space Institute and University of British Columbia, I am studying the intersections of nuclear and space security, developing models of debris produced by anti-satellite weapons testing, and pursuing policy pathways for protecting the night sky from light pollution.When I'm not working on space policy, I study dark matter and dark energy using large surveys of galaxies. Through my involvement in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey, I am improving our understanding of a number of observational and theoretical systematic effects that can contaminate weak gravitational lensing measurements.