Interested in joining the group?

Postdocs: if you would like to come to Caltech through a national or Caltech fellowship and collaborate, please let me know! The primary Caltech fellowships are the Caltech EXP Prize Fellowhip, the Burke Fellowship, and the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellewship. The primary national fellowships are NSF AAPF, NHFP Hubble Fellowship, and the Brinson Prize Fellowship.

Graduate students: if you are a current Caltech graduate student interested in working with me, please send me an email to find a time to chat about potential projects. For prospective graduate students, please apply to Caltech Physics and list "experimental cosmology" as your area of interest and me as faculty you'd like to work with. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications, I am unable to meet with prospective students prior to admission. (Prospective) Graduate students are encouraged to apply for research fellowships.

Undergraduates: Caltech undergraduates please reach out about SURF opportunities. Non-Caltech students are encouraged to inquire about research opportunities if you have funding through a research program at your institution or through a national fellowship.

Current Students

  • Yuka Nakato (Stanford, joined group Summer 2021)
  • Mati Mebratu (Stanford, joined group Spring 2022)
  • Ana Carolina Silva Oliveira (Stanford->Caltech, joined group Summer 2024)
  • Nicholas Ferree (Stanford->Caltech, joined group Fall 2024)
  • Zane Blood (Caltech, joined group Winter 2026)

Current Postdocs

  • Dominic Beck (Spring 2021--)
  • Frank J. Qu (Fall 2024--)
  • Fei Ge (Winter 2025--)
  • Marianna Foschi (Fall 2025--)

Former students and postdocs

  • Abhishek Maniyar (Stanford postdoc 2022--2025; Researcher at LAPTh Annecy)
  • Federico Bianchini (Stanford postdoc 2021--2025; Machine Learning Engineer at Woven by Toyota)
  • Zhaodi Pan (UChicago PhD 2023 --> postdoc at Argonne)
  • Jody Ti-Lin Chou (UChicago PhD 2024 --> UChicago postdoc)
  • Adriana Gavidia (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo undergradute; Summer 2021 --> Caltech PhD candidate)
  • Pei-Jun Huang (Brown undergraduate; Summer 2024)
  • Loulou Mueller (ETH undergraduate; Summer 2024)
  • Stanford rotation students: Jason Corbin (Fall 2020), Mahlet Shiferaw (Spring 2022), Adi Suresh (Fall 2022), Toby Satterthwaite (Winter 2023)

Group expectations

Our acknowledgement of each other's humanity in our interactions is the foundation on which we do our inquiry as scientists. I expect that we treat each other with respect: give the other person the benefit of the doubt, check your (un)conscious biases, critique ideas not people. Let's strive to create a welcoming environment for people from diverse backgrounds.

To facilitate clear communication of expectations, this expectation sheet contains useful topics of discussions that I use as guidelines with my group members.

Useful resources