Huterer research group
Work of the Huterer group members is currently supported in part by the Department of Energy (Cosmic Frontier), and the National Science Foundation (AAG) grants.And by the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Professor
Dragan Huterer (website)
PhD: University of Chicago, 2001
Dark energy, large-scale structure, general-purpose cosmology. DES and DESI.
Postdocs
Erik Peterson (Michigan Society of Fellows; website)
PhD: Duke University, 2025
Type Ia supernovae; cosmology.
Uendert Andrade (Leinweber Fellow)
PhD: Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 2021
Large-scale structure, dark energy, fundamental tests of cosmology, statistics.
Graduate Students
Sikandar Hanif
6th year. Large-scale structure. DESI.
Otavio_Alves
6th year. Large-scale structure, computational cosmology. DES and DESI.
Tianke Zhuang
5th year. Cosmological parameter estimation. DESI.
Jiaming Pan
4th year. Modified gravity; gravitational-wave standard sirens; DESI.
Prakhar Bansal (website)
2nd year. Dark energy; DESI.
Qianran Xia
2nd year. Large-scale structure; DESI.
Isabele Lais de Souza Vitorio
2nd year. Type Ia supernovae; DESI.
Former group members
- Cameron Gibelyou (dipoles in the sky; PhD 2012); currently Academic Program Officer (UM)
- Adam Becker (primordial non-Gaussianity; PhD 2012); currently Science writer (LBL)
- Eduardo Ruiz (growth of structure; PhD 2014); currently at Matrix Research (Ohio)
- Daniel Shafer (dark energy; PhD 2016) currently at DeepGram (Baltimore)
- Mijin Yoon (kinematic dipole in LSS; PhD 2016); currently postdoc at German Ctr. Lensing
- Jessie Muir (DES; CMB anomalies; PhD 2018); currently Assistant Professor of Physics at University of Cincinnati
- Noah Weaverdyck (DES and LSS systematics; PhD 2021); currently Chamberlain Fellow at LBL
- Angela Chen (DES and baryonic effects; PhD 2021); currently postdoc at IPMU
- Youjia Wu (dark matter pheno; PhD 2022); currently at Bosch (China)
- Yuewei Wen (Growth of structure; PhD 2023); currently postdoc at National Astronomical Observatories of China in Beijing
- Emery Trott (Gravitational-wave dark sirens; PhD 2024)
- Sikandar Hanif (DESI; PhD 2025); currently data scientist at Intel
Former graduate students:
- Wendy Wong (2008-09)
- Sophie Zhang (2008-12)
- Jingyuan Chen (2009-11)
- Zimu Li (2010-11)
- Bardia Nadim (2013-14)
- Kyle Hinton (2013-15)
- Brian Cook (2014-15)
- Nicholas Weinberg (2015-17)
- Levent Toksoz (2015-17)
- C. Michael Liberato (2016-18)
- John Soltis (2016-19)
- Mayura Balakrishnan (2018-20)
- Trevor Gravely (2018-19)
- Dhayaa Anbayagane (2019-20)
- Aidan Meador-Woodruff (2021-23)
- Carter Matties (2023)
Former undergraduate students:
- Carlos Cunha (at UM 2008-11); currently senior data scientist at Bosch (San Francisco)
- Devdeep Sarkar (at UM 2009-11); currently making a lot of money at Goldman Sachs
- Wenjuan Fang (at UM 2009-12) ; currently faculty at USTC, China
- Hao-Yi (Heidi) Wu (at UM 2011-14) ; currently faculty at Boise State Univ.
- Saroj Adhikari (at UM 2016-19); currently faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh
- Minh Nguyen (at UM 2021-24); currently postdoc fellow at IPMU (Japan)
- Johannes Lange (at UM 2022-24); currently assistant professor at American University