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Thomas Hilder, Ph.D.

Flatiron Software Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics

Bio

Thomas Hilder joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics as a Software Flatiron Research Fellow in October 2026. Thomas works on building statistical models of the ionised interstellar medium in order to decode the three-dimensional physical, chemical and dynamical structure of star-forming regions. He is also interested in developing new methods and algorithms for astrophysical data analysis problems more broadly, and in making these widely available through open source software development. Thomas earned his Ph.D. from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Publications

exoALMA. XXIII. Estimating Disk and Planet Properties from Dust Morphologies with DBNets 2.0

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, arXiv:2603.13149, March 2026

Alessandro Ruzza, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Rosotti, Philip Armitage, et al.

Unified Spectrospatial Forward Models: Spatially Continuous Maps of Weak Emission Lines in the Rosette Nebula with SDSS-V LVM

The Astrophysical Journal, arXiv:2510.07395, February 2026

T. Hilder, Andrew R. Casey, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Kathryn Kreckel, et al.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

arxiv:2507.06989, July 2025

Juna A. Kollmeier, H. Rix, C. Aerts, James Aird, et al.

exoALMA. VIII. Probabilistic Moment Maps and Data Products Using Nonparametric Linear Models

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, arxiv:2504.19416, May 2025

T. Hilder, Andrew R. Casey, Daniel J. Price, Christophe Pinte, et al.

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