COSMIC DAWN LAB
Cosmic Dawn Lab is a research group spread across the Institute of Astronomy, Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge focused on exploring the first few billion years of the Universe.
The research spans from the cosmic Dark Ages to present day including topics such as: 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen, intensity mapping of other molecular and atomic lines, structure formation, nature of dark matter, transient phenomena such as Fast Radio Bursts, and low frequency radio observations and astrophysical constraints.
Meet the research group
Anastasia Fialkov
GROUP LEADER
Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Institute of AstronomyHarry Bevins
JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Statistical methods, machine-learning, Bayesian piplines for 21-cm cosmologyShikhar Mittal
POST DOC
Interpretation and modelling of the cosmic dawn 21-cm signal, and REACH data analysisALEX TOCHER
PHD STUDENT
Fuzzy dark matter simulations and its impact on star-formation and 21-cm signalSimon Pochinda
PHD STUDENT
Multi-wavelength synergies, and generative models for cosmological super-resolutionEmma Shen
PHD STUDENT
Ionospheric effects and polarized foreground modelling for 21-cm experimentsJiten Dhandha
PHD STUDENT
Observational synergies between 21-cm experiments and HST/JWSTSaswata Dasgupta
PHD STUDENT
Impact of X-ray binary stochasticity on 21-cm signal, and REACH calibrationFuren Deng
LONG TERM KAVLI VISITOR
Jacques Valkenberg
MPHIL STUDENT
Kyle Wong
MAST STUDENT
Oliver Basquette
PART III STUDENT
Patrick Whitman
PART III STUDENT
Zixin Wei
PART III STUDENT
Past members
Post-docs
Boyuan Liu (PDRA, 2022 - 2024), currently PDRA at Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University.
Nina Sartorio (PDRA, 2019 - 2022), currently FWO junior postdoctoral fellow at University of Ghent.
PhD students
Tibor Dome (2020 - 2024), currently at GMV.
Thomas Gessey-Jones (2020 - 2024), currently at PhysicsX.
Stefan Heimersheim (2019 - 2023), currently at Apollo Research.
Harry Bevins (2019 - 2023), currently a KICC Fellow.
Summer students
Meg Georgina Blackburn (2024).
Sebastian Ljung (2023).
Almudena Visser (2023).
Emily Wickens (2022).Â
Agustina Magarinos Rodriguez (2022).
Henry Linton (2021).
Mac McMullan (2021).
James Marsden (2020).
Ben Haggerwood (2020).
Masters
Daniel Kessler (2023 - 2024) at Cavendish.
Nora Gavrea (2023 - 2024) at IoA.
Rachel Incley (2023 - 2024) at IoA.
Zhihan Guo (2023 - 2024) at IoA.
Rumail Azhar (2022 - 2023) at IoA.
Adithya Nandakumar (2022 - 2023) at IoA.
Clark Huang (2021 - 2022) at Cavendish, co-advised with E. de Lera Acedo.
Vasundhara Prasad (2021 - 2022) at IoA.
Edmund Ross (2021 - 2022) at IoA.
Irene Abril Cabezas (2021 - 2022, +summer) at IoA.
Alex Tocher (2020 - 2021, +summer) at IoA.
Pan You Qi Yuki (2020 - 2021) at Cavendish, co-advised with E. de Lera Acedo.
Emma Shen (2019 - 2020) at Cavendish, co-advised with E. de Lera Acedo and W. Handley.