Curriculum Vitae

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Education

}2018 – 2024PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of TorontoNSERC CGS-D Fellow 2020–2023 · NSERC CGS-M Fellow 2019–2020Thesis: Charting Stellar Streams of the Milky WaySupervisors: Jo Bovy, Jeremy Webb
}2014 – 2018B.S. in Mathematical Physics and Astronomy, Case Western Reserve UniversitySumma Cum LaudeSupervisors: Stacy McGaughGPA 4.0

Professional Appointments

}2024 – 2027Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchBrinson Prize Fellowship (2024–2027)
}2024 –Visiting Researcher, Case Western Reserve UniversityDepartment of Physics
}2021 –Coordinator (2025 – 2028), Strategic Planner (2025 – 2026) & Core Developer, AstropyCoordination Committee (executive committee), 2025–2028Strategic Planning and Organizing Committee, 2025–2026Member, Core Developer Team; maintainer, Cosmology and UnitsFunding: Astropy Cycle III — Cosmology and Quantity 2.0Team awards: 2025 AAS Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize, the 2023 IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award and the 2022 ADASS Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to Astronomical Software
}2017SOURCE Research Assistant, Case Western Reserve UniversityMentor: Stacy McGaugh (CWRU Astronomy)Summer research positionFunding: Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE)Project: an algorithm for maximal disc decompositions of galactic rotation curves, applied to the SPARC database to extract lower bounds on the dark matter content of the sample galaxies. Published in Starkman et al. 2018
}2016NSF-REU Student, Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE)Mentor: Ira Wasserman (Cornell Astronomy)Summer research position at CLASSEFunding: NSF Research Experiences for UndergraduatesProject: whether monopolar neutron-star magnetospheres can produce coherent curvature radiation. Coherent radiation near the light-cylinder boundary is a candidate source of FRB-like signals
}2015Summer Research Assistant, Case Western Reserve UniversityAdvisor: John Ruhl (CWRU Physics)Funding: federal grants awarded to Prof. RuhlProject: Markov Chain Monte Carlo programs predicting how well South Pole Telescope detectors can distinguish B-modes from noise

Grants & Fellowships

}2026Pacific Postdoc Program, Visiting Fellow, Dark Universe Science Center, University of Washington; Simons InstituteA one-month fellowship at the Dark Universe Science Center at the University of Washington in Seattle, funded by the Dark Universe Science Center and the Simons Institute
}2026JWST GO 10246: Exploring the Accretion History and Halo of Giant Elliptical Cen A with Resolved Stars, Co-I
}2024Brinson Prize Fellowship, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brinson Foundation — USD 360,000“to support early-career astrophysicists and cosmologists who are committed to chasing bold ideas with creative, nimble, and innovative research."
}2024NSERC PDF, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada — CAD 90,000 (declined)Postdoctoral Fellowships program (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada). Declined
}2022Astropy Cycle III: Cosmology in Astropy — USD 12,000USD 12,000 NASA ROSES and Moore Foundation funding to Astropy Lead: “Cosmology in Astropy"
}2022Astropy Cycle III: Quantity 2.0 — USD 8,000USD 8,000 NASA ROSES and Moore Foundation funding to Astropy Lead: “Quantity 2.0: unitful calculations beyond NumPy"
}2020 – 2023NSERC - CGS D, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada — CAD 105,000Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Award (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
}2019 – 2024Junior Fellowship, Massey CollegeUniversity of Toronto's graduate college for those showing exceptional promise and engagement within academia and the world beyond it
}2019 – 2020NSERC - CGS M, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada — CAD 17,500Canada Graduate Scholarships (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
}2018 – 2024University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto — CAD 23,000–32,000 p.a.

Awards

}2025AAS Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust PrizeTo the Astropy CollaborationTeam award, as a core developer and Coordination Committee member of Astropy
}2024ASA Astrostatistics Interest Group Student Paper Competition, FinalistTo Nathaniel StarkmanFinalist for Stream Members Only
}2023IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award, North AmericaTo the Astropy CollaborationTeam award, as an author of the v5.0 paper: top 1% most-cited in Astronomy and Astrophysics
}2022Jackman Massey Bursary
}2022OSOTF HUDD Award at MasseyOntario Student Opportunity Trust Fund
}2022ADASS Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to Astronomical SoftwareTo the Astropy ProjectTeam award, as a core developer of Astropy
}2018Graduate Admissions Award
}2018Donald A. Glaser AwardTo an outstanding Mathematics and Physics Senior
}2018John Schoff Millis AwardTo the senior with the best academic record in the College of Arts and Sciences
}2018Summa Cum Laude
}2017Outstanding Junior Award of Arts and Sciences
}2017The Albert A. Michelson Prize“To a [3rd year] physics major who has demonstrated superior performance”
}2017Goldwater Scholarship, Honorable Mention“For exceptional promise of becoming this nation’s next generation of research leaders”
}2016Phi Beta Kappa Academic Award
}2016Goldwater Scholarship, Honorable Mention
}2014 – 2018Dean’s High Honor ListTo the students with the best academic record. Awarded semesterly
}2014 – 2018Case Western Reserve University Merit Scholarship

Publications

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}In PrepCoordinax: an extended framework for coordinates and differential geometry in JAX — N. Starkman, A. Price-Whelanin-prep
}In PrepWhen Streams Curve Away II: Angular Distributions in Stellar Stream Convexity Distributions Distinguish CDM, SIDM, and MOND — N. Starkmanin-prep
}In PrepDirectly Model the Stream: A State-Space Model for Gravitational Potentials from Stellar Streams — N. Starkmanin-prep
}2026Potamides: Mapping Dark Matter Halo Shapes from Stellar Stream Tracks in the Local Universe — S. Wu‡, N. Starkman, S. Pearson, J. Nibauer, et al. The Astrophysical Journal 1010, 120
}2026Potamides: JAX tools for curvature-based inference from stellar streams — S. Wu‡, N. Starkman, J. Nibauer, S. Pearson. Journal of Open Source Software 11, 10712
}2026When Streams Curve Away: a Test of Dark Matter from Extragalactic Stellar Stream Populations — N. Starkman, J. Nibauer, S. Pearson, S. Wu‡, et al. The Astrophysical Journalsubmitted
}2026Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): The geometry of dark matter halos from extragalactic streams — N. Starkman, J. Nibauer, S. Pearson, S. Wu‡, et al. Astronomy & Astrophysicssubmitted
}2026Reconstructing Galactic Gravitational Potentials from Stellar Kinematics with Physics-Informed Neural Networks — C. Myers†, N. Starkman, L. Necib. The Astrophysical Journalsubmitted
}2026Galactic Amnesia: The Information Washout of the Milky Way Merger History — L. Necib, D. Folsom, E. Y. Davies, N. Starkman, et al.submitted
}2026phasecurvefit: A High-Performance JAX Framework for Phase-Space Walks with Pluggable Metrics and Strategies — N. Starkman, J. Nibauer. Journal of Open Source SoftwaresubmittedAccepted by pyOpenSci; submitted to JOSS
}2025Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Modeling Galactic Gravitational Potentials — C. Myers†, N. Starkman, L. Necib. NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
}2025StreamSculptor: Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory for Stellar Streams in Flexible Potentials with Differentiable Simulations — J. Nibauer, …, N. Starkman, et al. The Astrophysical Journal 983, 68
}2025unxt: A Python package for unit-aware computing with JAX — N. Starkman, A. M. Price-Whelan, J. Nibauer. Journal of Open Source Software 10, 7771
}2025Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams with Mixture Density Networks — N. Starkman, J. Nibauer, J. Bovy, J. Webb, et al. The Astrophysical Journal 980, 253
}2024Angular Correlations of Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum Distortions from Photon Diffusion — N. Starkman, G. Starkman, A. Kosowsky. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 529, 2274–2288
}2023The Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure: Meeting Report — M. R. Blanton, …, N. Starkman, et al.
}2023On the fast track: Rapid construction of stellar stream paths — N. Starkman, J. Bovy, J. Webb, D. Calvetti, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 522, 5022–5036
}2022The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package — A. M. Price-Whelan, P. L. Lim, N. Earl, N. Starkman, et al. The Astrophysical Journal 935, 167Co-wrote the Highlighted Feature Development, New and Planned Features, Precision, Accuracy & Reproducibility, and Performance sections
}2020Straight Lightning as a Signature of Macroscopic Dark Matter — N. Starkman, H. Winch, J. S. Sidhu, G. Starkman. Physical Review D 103, 063024
}2020An extended Pal 5 stream in Gaia DR2 — N. Starkman, J. Bovy, J. Webb. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
}2018A constant characteristic volume density of dark matter haloes from SPARC rotation curve fits — P. Li, F. Lelli, S. S. McGaugh, N. Starkman, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
}2018A new algorithm to quantify maximum discs in galaxies — N. Starkman, F. Lelli, S. S. McGaugh, J. Schombert. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 480, 2292–2301

Software Development

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Astropy
The Astropy logo: a white spiral on an orange-to-red oval.

Core developer · Coordination Committee · Strategic Planning

Astronomy in Python

The community core package for astronomy in Python. The collaboration received the 2025 AAS Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize, a 2023 IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award and the 2022 ADASS software prize.

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galax
The galax logo, the GalacticDynamics mark: a painted spiral galaxy with a glowing core on a dark disk, circled by a dark ring, between a teal < and a purple > code bracket.

lead developer

Galactic dynamics in JAX

Galactic dynamics in JAX: gravitational potentials, orbit integration, mock stellar streams, and action-angle coordinates, all differentiable and GPU-ready.

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plum

maintainer

Multiple dispatch in Python

Multiple dispatch for Python, close to Julia's, driven by type annotations and powered by Beartype.

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coordinax
The coordinax logo: a ruler crossed with a green arrow on a blue square.

lead developer

Coordinates in JAX

Coordinates in JAX: points, vectors, and reference frames, with differentiable, unit-aware transformations between coordinate systems.

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unxt
The unxt logo: a ruler crossed with a green pencil on a blue square.

lead developer

Units in JAX

Unit-aware computing in JAX, with a Quantity familiar to astropy.units users that passes through jit, vmap, grad, and existing JAX code.

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quax
The quax logo: a black rubber duck, Material Design Icons' duck.

maintainer

Multiple dispatch in JAX

Multiple dispatch over array types in JAX, so custom arrays (sparse, structured, or carrying units) run through existing JAX programs.

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potamides
The potamides logo: a capital Phi, for the gravitational potential, its ring a stream of stars shaded teal into purple with three arrows a side pointing in, on a dark rounded square.

co-lead developer

Constrain gravitational potentials from stellar stream curvature

Infers galaxy mass distributions from the projected shapes of stellar streams, fitting their tracks with splines and comparing the tracks' curvature to a potential's accelerations.

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jaxmore
The jaxmore logo: JAX's, its letters built from coloured rhombi, with the J's stem crossed by a dark-grey bar of the same rhombi into a big plus.

There's more to JAX

The utilities you keep re-writing, collected in one place.

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phasecurvefit
The phasecurvefit logo: noisy points along a self-crossing looped curve, coloured by their fitted order from red through yellow to blue, with the learned mean path drawn as a black line.

lead developer

Paths through phase space

Orders samples along a curve in phase space and fits a smooth track through them, using velocities as well as positions so curves that cross or fold back stay on the right strand.

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galactoPINNs
Orbits of a test particle in a Milky Way–LMC system, integrated in the true potential, a near-true analytic model, and three neural-network models. The most complete neural-network models track the true orbit almost exactly, while the near-true analytic model drifts away from it.

co-developer

Physics-informed neural networks for galactic potentials

Physics-informed residual neural networks augmenting analytic baseline models that learn time-dependent galactic gravitational potentials from position + acceleration data, built on JAX.

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diffraxtra
The diffraxtra logo: diffrax's, an integral sign cut out of a black rounded square, with a big plus cut out beside it.

lead developer

Extras for Diffrax

An object-oriented interface to Diffrax's differential-equation solver, and interpolation over batched solutions.

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mvgkde
The mvgkde logo: a kernel density estimate of points scattered along a slanted, handwritten M, drawn as filled contours from cream through gold and green to deep blue.

lead developer

Multivariate Gaussian KDE

Multivariate Gaussian kernel density estimation in JAX, with full control of the kernel's covariance, including a bandwidth per dimension.

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spexial
The spexial logo: a capital Gamma shaded from teal through blue to purple on a dark rounded square.

lead developer

scipy.special in JAX

Special functions for JAX, following the scipy.special API: functions JAX lacks, such as the modified Bessel K and the polylogarithm, fixes where it returns wrong values, and hand-written derivatives where its own are slow or nan.

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quaxed
The quaxed logo: a black rubber duck, quax's, with a white badge on its body carrying a blue tick.

lead developer

Pre-quaxed libraries

jax.numpy, jax.lax, and other JAX libraries, pre-wrapped with quax so they accept custom array types directly.

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cosmology.api
The cosmology.api logo, the cosmology-api organisation's mark: a near-white hexagon holding three linked cube outlines, on slate.

lead developer

A standard interface for cosmology libraries

Standard Python interfaces for cosmology codes, so one piece of code works with Astropy, CLASS, CAMB, or any library that follows them, with no run-time dependency.

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macro_lightning
The macro_lightning logo: a dotted track through a cloud, ending below it in a black macro trailing a blue wake inside a yellow channel.

lead developer

Constrain macroscopic dark matter with lightning

Constraints on macroscopic dark matter from lightning, on Earth and Jupiter. Released with the PRD paper.

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preamble
The preamble logo: a document page whose top band, the preamble, is shaded purple and crossed by a big purple backslash, above grey lines of text.

author

A LaTeX preamble worth reusing

A LaTeX preamble worth reusing

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oncequinox
The oncequinox logo: Equinox's, a navy circle solid on the left and a checkerboard on the right, with a big 1 cut out of its solid half.

Singletons for Equinox

Singletons for Equinox

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quax-blocks
The quax-blocks logo: a black rubber duck, quax's, with a white badge on its body carrying three blue blocks stacked into a pyramid.

Building blocks for quax classes

Mixins for arithmetic, comparison and array protocols, so a new array type is a few lines.

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is_annotated
The is_annotated logo: square brackets around a teal block and a purple flag, the shape of Annotated[T, metadata], with a yellow badge carrying a tick.

Check whether a type hint is Annotated

Check whether a type hint is Annotated

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dataclassish
The dataclassish logo: a purple brace opening three fields, each a purple dot and a wavy teal tilde, beside a plain navy box.

lead developer

dataclasses, for everything

The dataclasses tools replace, fields, and asdict, extended to any Python object by registering per-type methods.

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xmmutablemap
The xmmutablemap logo: a teal snowflake between a pair of purple dict braces, a frozen mapping.

An immutable mapping, JAX-compatible

An immutable mapping, JAX-compatible

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zeroth
The zeroth logo: [0], a purple zero between navy square brackets.

Efficiently get the index-0 element of any iterable

Efficiently get the index-0 element of any iterable

Invited Talks

}2026Marche III: Big Bang, Big Stars, Big Computers“Energy Structures of Extragalactic Stellar Streams Reveal Dark Matter Halos”
}2026EAS 26-S10“The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2026CWRU Seminar“Computationally Unscrambling EGGS (Extra-Galactic Gravity from Streams)”
}2025TeVPA“The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025DARK seminar“The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025Texas A&M Seminar“The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025CCA Software seminar“unxt, coordinax, and software development in JAX”
}2025Princeton Thunch Seminar“Euclid: The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025DARK seminar“Bayesian models for detecting streams in LSST data”
}2024CWRU Seminar“Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams for Inference on the Galactic Potential”
}2023CITA Seminar“Astropy Cosmology: the Present and the Expanding Future”
}2022Oxford Physics Colloquium“Straight Lightning as a Signature of Macroscopic Dark Matter”Invited Colloquium Talk
}2020Johns Hopkins University Physics Journal Club“Straight Lightning as a Signature of Macroscopic Dark Matter”
}2017Origins Cruise to the British Isles, Iceland and Norway (Talk)“The Life and Death of the Universe: An Overview Lecture on Cosmology”

Presentations

}2026New Frontiers in Cosmology (Talk)“Energy Structures of Extragalactic Stellar Streams Reveal Dark Matter Halos”
}2026Near Field Cosmology in the Era of Big Data (Talk)“Energy Structures of Extragalactic Stellar Streams Reveal Dark Matter Halos”
}2026DARK Seminar (Talk)“Energy Structures of Extragalactic Stellar Streams Reveal Dark Matter Halos”
}2026York Seminar (Talk)“Euclid: The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025IAUS 403 (Talk)“Euclid: The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025Cosmology 2025 (Talk)“Euclid: The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025MKI Journal Club (Talk)“Euclid: The Geometry of Dark Matter Halos from Extragalactic Streams”
}2025DDA #56 (Poster)“Extra-Galactic Gravity using Streams (EGGS) from Euclid's Zoo(niverse)”
}2025Euclid LU-SWG (Talk)“Extra-Galactic Gravity using Streams (EGGS) from Euclid's Zoo(niverse)”
}2024ASA: Astrostatistics Interest Group Paper Competition (accepted, not attended)“Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams”
}2024Streams 24: The theory edition (Talk)“From JAX to Galax, a new generation of stellar stream tools”Using ML to select stellar stream members
}2024Division on Dynamical Astronomy #55 (Talk)“Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams”
}2024Globular Clusters and Their Tidal Tails (Talk)“Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams”
}2023DESC sprint week
}2023IAUS379: Dynamical Masses of Local Group Galaxies (Poster)“Stellar Stream Track Reconstruction, with Errors”
}2023AAS 2023 (Talk)“Astropy Tutorials on Units & Constants”
}2022CATS-2022 (Workshop)“Streams22: A workshop for assembling a Community Atlas of Tidal Streams”
}2021AAS 2021 (Talk)“Astropy Tutorials on Units & Constants, Coordinates, and Cosmology”
}2021CASCA AGM (Poster)“Straight Lightning as a Signature of Macroscopic Dark Matter”
}2021CASCA AGM (Poster)“Stellar Stream Track Reconstruction, with Errors”
}2021Stellar Stats Workshop (Talk)“Stellar Stream Track Reconstruction, with Errors”
}2020STScI 2020 The Local Group: Assembly and Evolution Symposium (Poster)“Constraints on Milky Way Halo Triaxiality from Palomar 5”
}2020Kaplan cosmology course (Talk)Paid lecturer in Kaplan Cosmology course at Case Western Reserve University
}201930th Texas Symposium On Relativistic Astrophysics (Talk)“Resolving the Recombination Visibility Function Width Tension”Awarded best graduate student presentation
}20195th Gaia Challenge Conference (Talk)“Using Manifold Learning Techniques to Identify Stream Progenitors”
}20195th Gaia Challenge Conference (Talk)“Extending the Pal5 Stream Detection Limits”
}2019Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop (Talk)“Parameterizing the recombination visibility function”
}2018CWRU SOURCE Intersections (Poster)“A new algorithm to quantify maximal disks”
}2017CWRU Physics Seminar (Talk)“Understanding the Dark Matter distribution in galaxies using maximal disks”
}2017CWRU Astronomy Summer Seminar (Talk)“Understanding the Dark Matter distribution in galaxies using maximal disks”
}2016Cornell CLASSE Summer Seminar (Talk)“Coherent curvature radiation in a neutron star’s monopolar magnetic field”

Conferences Organized

}2026Astropy 2026 Conference, Coordination Committee and Strategic Planning CommitteeModerated online discussion and helped moderate the AI sessions
}2026Astrophysics and Space Science in Marche III: Big Bang, Big Stars, Big Computers, SOC
}2026Gaia Hackathon, LOC
}2025Astropy Coordination Meeting, SOC
}2025Division of Dynamical Astronomy #56, SOC
}2025Gaia Hackathon, LOC
}2024JAXtronomy Workshop, SOC
}2021ComSciCon GTA 2021, Organizing CommitteeA workshop series for graduate students on science communication skills
}2020ComSciCon GTA 2020, Organizing CommitteeToronto’s first ComSciCon
}2019.Astronomy 11, LOCLed a workshop on scientific plotting

Conferences Attended

}2023The Future of Astrophysical Data Infrastructure
}2019ComSciCon Canada 2019Selected participant at Canada’s first national science communication workshop for graduate students
}2018The Standard Model at 50 YearsA Celebratory Symposium for the Standard Model Conference Volunteer
}2017Dwarf Galaxies on the Shoulders of GiantsWorkshop on topics related to dwarf galaxies and the dark matter problem Conference Volunteer

Professional & Software Talks

}2024Globular Clusters and Their Tidal Tails (Talk)“From JAX to Galax”
}2023Astropy Conference (Talk)“An Interoperable Future with Astropy”
}2022Astropy Core Developer Conference (Talk), Maintainer, Cosmology and Units“The future of interoperability with Python's Protocols”

Students Advised & Mentored

}2026Reem Hamraz Google Summer of Code for AstropyHardening Astropy’s core stability
}2026 –Zihan (Billy) Liu (Cornell)Stellar stream detection in Rubin LSST data
}2026Pablo Mercader-Perez (MIT) with Prof. Lina Necib (MIT)Local dark matter density from pulsar accelerations with physics-informed neural fields
}2025 – 2026Amir Abdulgadir (Howard)Baryon Modeling in External Galaxies with Stellar StreamsLeadership Alliance SR-EIP and MIT Summer Research Program (2025)Leadership Alliance National Symposium, July 23–25 (2025)2025 NSBP-NSHP Joint Annual Conference, November 19–23 (2025)Constraining Dark Matter in External Galaxies Using Stellar Streams — 2026 APS Global Physics Summit, March 14–20 (2026)
}2025 – 2026Taisiia Karasova (MIT) with Prof. Lina Necib (MIT)Machine Learning Galaxy intrinsic sizes
}2024 – 2026Charlotte Myers (MIT) with Prof. Lina Necib (MIT)Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Modeling Galactic Gravitational PotentialsFirst-author papers: a NeurIPS workshop paper and a paper submitted to The Astrophysical JournalThree from MIT named 2026 Goldwater Scholars — MIT News (2026)Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2026)
}2024 – 2026Sirui Wu (PhD student of Sarah Pearson, Copenhagen)Dark matter halo shapes from stellar stream curvatureFirst-author papers: in The Astrophysical Journal and in the Journal of Open Source Software
}2023 – 2025Connor McKeigan (Astronomy, UofT) with Prof. Ting Li (UofT)Undergraduate thesis project: “Characterizing the stellar streams of S5”
}2019 – 2022Massey Tutoring ProgramVolunteer math and physics tutor to prospective first-generation college students2019, 2020 and 2022

Teaching

}2019 – 2020AST101-325, Lead Observer, University of TorontoTrained and liaised with TAs and students in all courses using the campus telescope facilities
}2019 – 2024AST 201: Stars and Galaxies, TA, University of TorontoDesigned and ran weekly course tutorial sections, created exam questions, proctored exams, and graded course projects2019, 2021–2024
}2018 – 2023AST 101: The Sun and its Neighbours, TA, University of TorontoDesigned and ran weekly course tutorial sections, planetarium shows, & observing nights; created exam questions, proctored exams, and graded course projects2018, 2021–2023
}2015Honors Mechanics, Grader, CWRUGraded assignments and exams
}2014 – 2015IB Physics, Physics Instructor, Montessori High School, ClevelandPrepared and tutored IB physics class, assigning and grading homework, for IB exam

Peer Review & Panels

Service & Committees

}2022 – 2023Massey House CommitteeJunior Fellow governance committee at Massey college
}2019 – 2020Sigma Nu Alumni Advisory Board, MemberSustainability and Chapter Operations committees
}2018 –Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
}2015 – 2017Chabad at CWRU, Executive Board MemberOrganized events on campus: dinners, holidays, charity events, and outreach programs Role: General Executive Board Member (2016-2017) Role: Chief financial officer (2015 -2016)
}2015 – 2018Sigma Nu FraternityMember in good standing. Served as webmaster (2016-2018) in charge of the fraternity webpage for news, programmed events, and intra-fraternal governance

Outreach

}2026Public Talk in Jesi, Italy
}2021Origins Science Scholars Lecture SeriesScience of Origins: Dark Matter and the Milky Way
}2019 – 2021AstroTours Telescopes, OrganizerOrganizer for all telescope outreach in Dunlap's public event
}2019 – 2024MasseyScope, Outreach Coordinator (2019–2022), Committee Member (2019–2024)Organizing astronomy outreach with a focus on underprivileged communitiesCo-hosted the 2020 Massey Telescope Public Talk Series and gave a talk in it on Ojibwe (First Nation) constellations
}2019Planet Party Toronto, Volunteer
}2018 – 2020Astronomy on Tap Toronto, Volunteer
}2018 – 2019AstroTours Planetarium, PresenterRegular planetarium show designer and presenter for Dunlap's AstroTours public outreach
}2018 – 2021AstroTours Toronto, Outreach Volunteer
}2017Cosmology Overview at CWRU Origins (Talk)The Universe: A Brief History

Small Grants

}2023Dunlap Student Training GrantTo attend the DESC sprint week
}2023Collaboration Meeting GrantTo visit the Center for Computational Astrophysics and collaborate on the paper
}2023Astropy Moore Travel GrantTo participate in the 2023 Astropy Coordination meeting
}2022Dunlap Student Training GrantTo attend Streams22: the Community Atlas of Tidal Streams workshop
}2022Streams22 Conference BursaryTo attend Streams22: the Community Atlas of Tidal Streams workshop
}2019Reinhardt Travel AwardTo present at the 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
}2019STScI Travel FundingTo attend STScI 2020 The Local Group: Assembly and Evolution Symposium
}2019Dunlap Student Travel Grant — USD 2,075To present at the 5th Gaia Challenge Workshop (Value: USD 2,075)
}2019Reinhardt Travel AwardTo present at the Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop
}2019ComSciCon Canada Travel AwardTo attend the first Canadian Science Communication Conference, ComSciConCAN

Media

}2023The JCR: A Massey Podcast - ChatGPT: Friend or FoePanelist for a public podcast interviewing researchers on how generative AI is used in various scientific fields
}2023The Hunt for Dark Matter: The Universe's Mysterious Gravitational GlueFeatured in article on various strategies to detect dark matter, including the method from my paper
}2022Massey Dialogue: Science and AestheticsPanelist for interdisciplinary salon discussion series
}2021The Search for the Elusive, Completely Straight Lightning BoltInterviewed for feature article about my paper
}2020Massey Dialogue: Techplomacy with Consul General Rana SarkarPanelist and co-organizer for a salon discussion on the Future of regulating Big Tech

Languages

  • English — native reading, speaking and writing
  • Spanish — beginner speaking, oral comprehension and writing
  • Hebrew — beginner speaking, oral comprehension and writing

Courses

  • PhD — Galactic Dynamics · Cosmology · AST 1501: Introduction to Research · AST 1500: Introduction to Research Astrophysics Literature · Machine Learning · Symbolic Mathematics
  • Bachelor's — Graduate Quantum Mechanics I & II · Graduate Electrodynamics · Graduate CMB Cosmology · Graduate Bayesian Modeling · General Relativity (graduate cross-listed) · Computational Methods in Physics · Galaxies and Cosmology · Physics and Frontiers I & II · Physics Today and Tomorrow · Stars and Planets · Analog and Digital Electronics · Introduction to Modern Physics · Undergraduate Research Physics: Modeling CMB Detectors · Advanced Physics Lab · Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics · Stellar Physics · Astronomical Techniques · Biophysics Modeling · Senior Seminar · Elementary Computer Programming · Calculus for Science & Engineering II & III · Elementary Differential Equations · Linear Algebra · Mathematical Methods of Physics I & II · Dark Matter