Each week, we find out what’s on the minds and in the hearts of our scientists. Get to know what they think about science, life and the far reaches of space. Careful, you’re seeing scientists as humans, in their natural habitats and sometimes their comedic wardrobes.
Michael Baumer
Michael is a physics PhD Student at Stanford University studying the large-scale structure of dark matter in … Read more »
Mandeep Gill
Mandeep Gill is a staff researcher at Stanford University. He has worked on the master lens database for … Read more »
Rachel Wolf
Rachel is a member of the SN working group. She is currently working on new statistical techniques to infer … Read more »
Ross Cawthon
Large-scale structure (LSS) in cosmology refers to the distribution of visible matter, dark matter, galaxies, galaxy clusters, basically everything with … Read more »
Michael Troxel
Michael co-leads the weak lensing working group of DES, which means he’s responsible for coordinating weak lensing catalog creation and … Read more »
Matthias Klein
Matthias is interested in galaxy clusters and what we can learn from them for cosmology and physics. At … Read more »
Eric Baxter
Eric works on several cosmology-related projects in DES. Recently, he’s been exploring ways to combine data from DES … Read more »
Mike Jarvis
Mike is the co-coordinator of the Shear Pipeline Development and Testing subgroup and more generally an active member … Read more »
Chris D’Andrea
Chris studies supernovae, both as probes of cosmology and as fascinating astrophysical events. He coordinated all the spectroscopic followup … Read more »
Antonella Palmese
Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe and they carry a lot of interesting information … Read more »
