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Eli Visbal, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics

Elijah (Eli) Visbal joined the foundation in 2016 as a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. He has worked on a range of topics in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, focusing recently on modeling the formation of the first stars and supermassive black holes within the first billion years after the Big Bang. Prior to joining the foundation, Visbal was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He holds a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University.

Publications

Self-consistent semi-analytic models of the first stars

arXiv:1705.09005, May 25, 2017

Eli Visbal, Zoltán Haiman, and Greg Bryan

Rapid Formation of Massive Black Holes in close proximity to Embryonic Proto-Galaxies

Nature Astronomy, arXiv:1703.03805, March 17, 2017

J.A. Regan, Eli Visbal, J. Wise, Z. Haiman, P. Johansson, and Greg Bryan

What is the Maximum Mass of a Population III Galaxy?

arXiv:1701.00814, January 3, 2017

Eli Visbal, Greg Bryan, and Zoltán Haiman

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