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Welcome! I am a joint postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Observatories in the Theoretical Astrophysics Center and the University of Southern California Department of Physics & Astronomy in Cosmolab.

In January 2025, I will begin as an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.

My research focuses on galaxy formation, dark matter, and near-field cosmology. I study the formation and evolution of the faintest galaxies, the microphysical nature of dark matter, and the growth of nonlinear cosmic structure. I tackle these problems using cosmological simulations, semi-analytic models of the galaxy–halo connection, dark matter theory, and observations of dwarf galaxies and strong gravitational lenses.

Building an inclusive scientific community through mentoring, outreach and community service, and teaching is important to me; my efforts in these contexts are described on the corresponding pages.

I am a member of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Milky Way working group, Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Dark Matter Working Group, Satellites Around Galactic Analogs Survey (SAGA), and DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE).

Please see my CV, publications, and media for more information!

Research Opportunities

I am recruiting undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers to join my group at UC San Diego. If you’re interested, please email me at enadler@ucsd.edu. A postdoctoral scholar ad is posted on the AAS job register.

About Me

In 2021, I received my Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University, where I was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, advised by Risa Wechsler.

In 2016, I received my B.S. in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in the College of Creative Studies, advised by Peng Oh.

I am passionate about interdisciplinary science; for example, I have participated in programs at the Santa Fe Institute, where I co-founded the research collective comp-syn. My interdisciplinary work is described here.