Angus Beane, Ph.D.

Angus “Gus” Beane is an incoming postdoctoral fellow at New York University in the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics with Professor David Hogg. Beane completed his B.A. and M.S. in Physics & Astronomy and the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 and is currently a final year Ph.D. student at Harvard University with Professor Lars Hernquist.

Beane is primarily interested in using the present-day properties of stars to understand the origins of the Milky Way. He uses numerical simulations to disentangle which of the many physical processes common to all galaxies shaped the Milky Way. He has proposed that the galaxy’s gas phase stabilized the rotation of its bar, and that a brief period of halted star formation in the distant past resulted in a lack of stars with intermediate amounts of magnesium. He has also worked in the past in computational chemistry and cosmology.