About

I am a mostly theoretical cosmologist, specializing in gravitational lensing, and in particular, in and have recently become very interested in extracting additional information out of weak lensing signals of galaxy clusters. I've also gotten interested in strongly lensed systems as well.

I have also become very interested in the interface between cosmology and particle physics in the early universe, and my popular writing has centered largely on these questions. I am the author of two popular science books, and a textbook, "The Standard Model in a Nutshell," published by Princeton University Press in February of 2017.

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Honors

Trustee Scholarship (Full Tuition Merit-Based)
Boston University (United States, Boston) - BU
Case Scholarship for Academic Achievement
Boston University (United States, Boston) - BU, 1995
Fellow
National Science Foundation (United States, Alexandria) - NSF, 1996
College Awards in Astronomy and Physics
Boston University (United States, Boston) - BU, 1996

Associations

American Astronomical Society

Organizational Affiliations

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University

Education

Physics and Astronomy
BA, Boston University (United States, Boston) - BU
Astrophysical Sciences
MA, Princeton University (United States, Princeton)
Astrophysical Scienecs
PhD, Princeton University (United States, Princeton)
Yale University (United States, New Haven)
Postdoctoral Work

Gibbs Lecturer