Mentorship

Mentoring a diverse group of students on research in astrophysics and cosmology is an important part of my scientific practice. My recent graduate and undergraduate mentorship experiences are listed below:

Graduate students

• Wendy Crumrine, USC: Likelihood analyses of dark matter–baryon and dark matter–radiation interactions using Milky Way satellite galaxies;

• George (Trey) Driskell, USC: Efficiently generating constrained dark matter merger trees;

• Noah Glennon, University of New Hampshire: Soliton orbital evolution in self-interacting ultra-light dark matter (N. Glennon, E. O. Nadler et al. in prep.);

• Sidney Mau: Constraining the dark matter particle lifetime using ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (S. Mau, E. O. Nadler et al. 2022);

• Yunchong (Richie) Wang, Stanford: Empirically modeling star formation in dwarf galaxies (Y. Wang, E. O. Nadler et al. 2021); cosmological simulations including self-consistently grown galactic disks;

• Elise Darragh-Ford: Searching for phase-space overdensities in Gaia data (E. Darragh-Ford, E. O. Nadler et al. 2021); modeling dynamical substructure in the Milky Way.

Undergraduate students

• Deveshi Buch, Stanford: Constrained cosmological simulation suite of Milky Way analogs (D. Buch, E. O. Nadler et al. in prep.);

• Resherle Verna, USC: Evolution of the subhalo and splashback mass function in hydrodynamic simulations of self-interacting dark matter;

• Ellen Min, Caltech: Code development and Python implementation for Galacticus;

• Juan Quiroz, Caltech: Semi-analytically modeling subhalo evolution in decaying dark matter cosmologies;

• Shuxing Fang, USC: Large Magellanic Cloud infall in self-interacting dark matter cosmologies;

• Nyal McCrea, Central Washington Unversity (Simons-NSBP Scholar): Visualizing subhalo evolution in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations;

• Veronica Pratt, Stanford: Large Magellanic Cloud analogs in the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs Survey.

• Nicel Mohamed-Hinds, Stanford → University of Washington: Modeling subhalo disruption in hydrodynamic cosmological simulations.

• Abigail Lee, University of Pennsylvania → University of Chicago: Universality of subhalo disruption from Milky Way to galaxy cluster scales.