Cosmology X Data Science Group Members

Fiona McCarthy, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Cosmology X Data Science

Fiona McCarthy joins is a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Center for Computational Astrophysics.

Chirag Modi, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, CCM

Chirag Modi joined the Flatiron Institute as a Flatiron Research Fellow in October, 2020.

Alice Pisani, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Cosmology X Data

Alice Pisani is an Associate Research Scientist in the Cosmology X Data Science group at CCA, with a joint position at Cooper Union.

David Spergel, Ph.D.

President, Simons Foundation

David Spergel joined the Flatiron Institute in 2016 as founding director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics. In 2021 he became president of the Simons Foundation.

Ken Van Tilburg, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Cosmology X Data Science

Ken Van Tilburg is an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Astrophysics with the Cosmology X Data Science Group. Ken earned his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from MIT and his PhD. in Physics from Stanford University.

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, CCA

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro’s research interests range from cosmology to galaxy formation and its work is focused on understanding the impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmological observables and on the usage of the intensity mapping technique as a cosmological tool to study the…

Ben Wandelt, Ph.D.

International Chair of Theoretical Cosmology, Sorbonne University and the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris

Professor Benjamin Wandelt received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from Imperial College, London. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Theoretical Astrophysics Center in Copenhagen from 1997 to 1999, as a research associate at the Department of Physics, Princeton University, from 1999…