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Shy Genel, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics

Email
[email protected]
Website
users.flatironinstitute.org/~sgenel

Bio

Shy Genel joined the foundation in 2016 as an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. His research interests lie in the field of galaxy formation, as well as in numerical methods. To study how galaxies evolve, Genel runs and analyzes large computer simulations that generate ‘mock universes’ and develops codes for these purposes. Since completing his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, Genel has held several postdoctoral fellowships, including the Hubble fellowship at Columbia University and a fellowship at the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University.

Genel earned a Ph.D. in Extraterrestrial Physics from Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany.

Publications

The relationship between galaxy size and halo properties: insights from the IllustrisTNG simulations and differential clustering

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, arXiv:2502.03679, June 2026

Rachel S. Somerville, A. Gabrielpillai, Boryana Hadzhiyska, and S. Genel

The Thermodynamic and Kinematic Evolution of Circumgalactic Gas around z = 1 in the IllustrisTNG Model

The Astrophysical Journal, arXiv:2604.24836, May 2026

Daniel DeFelippis, S. Genel, and G. Bryan

Cosmological back-reaction of baryons on dark matter in the CAMELS simulations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, arXiv:2601.06258, April 2026

Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Angles-Alcazar, S. Genel, Daisuke Nagai, et al.

The Cosmic Baryon Cycle in IllustrisTNG: Flows of Mass, Energy, and Metals

The Astrophysical Journal, arXiv:2510.23343, March 2026

Yossi Oren, V. Pandya, Rachel S. Somerville, S. Genel, Osase Omoruyi, and A. Sternberg

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Taking a Fresh Look at the Cosmos

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The Largest Suite of Cosmic Simulations for AI Training Is Now Free To Download; Already Spurring Discoveries

A screenshot of a collection of gas density maps taken from 80 different simulations run by the CAMELS project using code taken from SIMBA.

Record-Breaking Suite of Cosmic Simulations Aims To Identify Universe’s Parameters

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Computation Opens New Doors for Science

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