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.
Tim Abbott
Tim is a founder member of the DES consortium, specializing in instrumentation. That is, he participated in the design and … Read more »
Joe Zuntz
Joe’s primary research interests are weak lensing and cosmological parameter estimation. He’s worked for about 5 years measuring the shapes … Read more »
Kerstin Paech
Currently Kerstin’s main research interest is the clustering of galaxy clusters – the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe. … Read more »
Adam Stanford
Adam works on high redshift galaxy clusters and is going to use DES in combination with Spitzer to … Read more »
Samuel Wyatt
During his undergraduate studies, Samuel worked closely with Douglas Tucker and Allyn Smith developing software to calibrate the … Read more »
Gaston R. Gutierrez
Gaston’s primary research interests are weak lensing and baryon acoustic oscillations. He participated in the construction of the DES … Read more »
Ben Hoyle
Ben is co-supervising the DES photo-z working group, and is also active in the star/galaxy/QSO, LSS void, and cluster-clustering working … Read more »
Eduardo Balbinot
Eduardo searches for faint stellar populations in the Milky Way halo.These include dwarf galaxies, faint star clusters, and other … Read more »
Katrin Heitmann
Katrin is currently co-leading the Simulation Working Group and most recently, has contributed to a paper on the … Read more »
Jéssica S. Martins
Jéssica is working on large scale structure, with particular interest in beyond LCDM models. Warm dark matter is her current … Read more »
