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Welcome! I am an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.

My research and group focuses on galaxy formation, dark matter, and near-field cosmology. In particular, I study the formation of the faintest galaxies, the nature of dark matter, and small-scale cosmic structure. My group tackles these problems using cosmological simulations, 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 co-convener of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Dark Matter Working Group and a member of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Milky Way 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.

About Me

From 2021 through 2024, I was 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 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.

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

I am passionate about interdisciplinary research. I am currently a Lattimer Research Fellow for Cross-disciplinary Explorations at UC San Diego. Earlier, I co-founded the research collective comp-syn. My interdisciplinary work is described here.