This CV is based on template designed by Daniel Foreman-Mackey. Here is the original repository. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. You can also find my resume here.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, USA
[email protected],
https://abhi0395.github.io/, Google
Scholar
Observational galaxy formation and evolution, circumgalactic and intergalactic medium, quasar absorption lines, spectral fitting for large surveys, data science methods
Sep 2022 - present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Investigating evolution of metal absorbers in the universe with DESI quasars.
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Improved redshift estimation algorithms for DESI galaxies, support scientist for DESI spectroscopic pipeline
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022: IMPRS PhD Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
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Conducted extensive studies on the gas distribution in the circumgalactic and intracluster medium using data from SDSS and DESI.
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Developed the quasar absorber finder, qsoabsfind, a tool used for detecting and analyzing metal absorbers in quasar spectra.
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018: UGC - JRF1, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
Sep 2018 - Jul 2022: PhD in Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University - Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Germany.
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Advisors: Prof. Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann & Dr. Dylan Nelson
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017: MS, Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
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Thesis: A sensitive search for HI 21 cm emission from super disks in radio galaxies
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Advisor: Prof. Nirupam Roy
Aug 2012 - June 2016: BSc (Research), Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
– Joanne Tan (MPA Garching PhD) (CGM absorbers in TNG-100), 2024-present
– Shivansh Tiwari (Delhi University UG) (QSO continuum modeling), 2024-present
– Corey Dodeson (UC Berkeley UG) (short-term reading project on CGM), 2023
– Dylan Green (UC Irvine PhD) (as part of DESI mentorship program), 2023
Language/Packages —
– python, numpy, matplotlib, scipy, astropy
OS/Tools —
– Linux, Mac, LaTeX, bash scripting, jupyter notebooks, slurm manager,
git
Member & contributor (github repo & software) —
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qsoabsfind: QSO metal absorber finder (Developer).
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redrock: Redshift fitting for spectroperfectionism (Contributor).
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desihub: Public code associated with DESI (Contributor).
– 2024: Perlmutter Supercomputer at NERSC, Properties of precious metal absorbers in DESI quasar spectra, 1000 CPU hours, 1000 GPU hours, PI: A. Anand
– 2023: Perlmutter Supercomputer at NERSC, Archetype based redshift estimation for DESI, 1000 CPU hours, 1000 GPU hours, PI: A. Anand
– 2018-2022: Freya Supercomputer at MPCDF, The multiphase galactic halo of galaxies and clusters with large spectroscopic and imaging surveys, 5000 CPU hours, PI: A. Anand
– Sep 2022: Support Scientist for DESI spectroscopic pipeline
– Jul 2024: Support Observing Scientist for DESI, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Jul 2-5, 2024 (four nights).
– DESI Early Career Travel Grant (USD 4000).
– DESI Postdoc Fellowship, 2022–2025.
– IMPRS PhD Fellowship, 2018–2022.
– UGC - Junior Research Fellowship, 2017-2018 (INR 390,000).
– DST2 - Higher Studies Scholarship, 2012-2017 (INR 400,000).
Referee —
– Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, Internal Reviewer for
DESI papers
Organizer & Member —
– Core committee member for DESI Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity (DEI)
committee.
– INPA Weekly Seminar, Physics Division,
LBNL, 2023-2024
Teaching Experience —
– Served as online physics tutor at E-acharya (more than 20
students)3 from June 2017 - Aug 2018.
Press releases —
– My papers (I,
II) featured
in monthly research highlight of MPA and appeared on
astrobites.
Interviews & podcast —
– Interviewed by Vidpeds
podcast to discuss my
astronomy journey and how people from small cities can become successful
astronomers.
– Gave
interview
to The Interview Portal to help
Indian college students plan their careers.
Total: 20 / refereed: 11 / first author: 4 / citations: 1,313 / h-index: 11 (Last updated: 2025-01-03), List attached below
Anand, Abhijeet; Guy, Julien; Bailey, Stephen; Moustakas, John; Aguilar, J.; et al., 2024, Archetype-based Redshift Estimation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey, The Astronomical Journal, 168, 124 (arXiv:2405.19288) [8 citations]
Anand, Abhijeet; Kauffmann, Guinevere; & Nelson, Dylan, 2022, Cool circumgalactic gas in galaxy clusters: connecting the DESI legacy imaging survey and SDSS DR16 Mg II absorbers, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513, 3210 (arXiv:2201.07811) [23 citations]
Anand, Abhijeet; Nelson, Dylan; & Kauffmann, Guinevere, 2021, Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504, 65 (arXiv:2103.15842) [35 citations]
Anand, Abhijeet; Roy, Nirupam; & Gopal-Krishna, 2019, Search for H I emission from superdisk candidates associated with radio galaxies, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19, 83 (arXiv:1812.06875) [2 citations]
Chang, Yu-Ling; Lan, Ting-Wen; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Napolitano, Lucas; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, Probing the Impact of Radio-mode Feedback on the Properties of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium, The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 191 (arXiv:2405.08314)
Galiullin, Ilkham; Rodriguez, Antonio C.; El-Badry, Kareem; Szkody, Paula; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, Searching for new cataclysmic variables in the Chandra Source Catalog, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690 (arXiv:2408.00078) [1 citations]
Wu, X.; Cai, Z.; Lan, T. -W.; Zou, S.; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, Tracing the evolution of the cool gas in CGM and IGM environments through Mg II absorption from redshift z=0.75 to z=1.65 using DESI-Y1 data, ArXiv (arXiv:2407.17809) [3 citations]
Napolitano, Lucas; Pandey, Agnesh; Myers, Adam D.; Lan, Ting-Wen; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2023, Detecting and Characterizing Mg II Absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra, The Astronomical Journal, 166, 99 (arXiv:2305.20016) [14 citations]
Ayromlou, Mohammadreza; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Anand, Abhijeet; & White, Simon D. M., 2023, The physical origin of galactic conformity: from theory to observation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, 1913 (arXiv:2207.02218) [16 citations]
Scholte, Dirk; Saintonge, Amélie; Moustakas, John; Catinella, Barbara; Zou, Hu; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, The atomic gas sequence and mass-metallicity relation from dwarfs to massive galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535, 2341 (arXiv:2408.03996) [2 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars, ArXiv (arXiv:2411.12021) [10 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements, ArXiv (arXiv:2411.12022) [11 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics, ArXiv (arXiv:2411.12020) [4 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, The Astronomical Journal, 168, 58 (arXiv:2306.06308) [223 citations]
Ross, A. J.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, The Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, ArXiv (arXiv:2405.16593) [9 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, ArXiv (arXiv:2404.03002) [480 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars, ArXiv (arXiv:2404.03000) [173 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest, ArXiv (arXiv:2404.03001) [143 citations]
DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, The Astronomical Journal, 167, 62 (arXiv:2306.06307) [152 citations]
Han, Jiwon Jesse; Dey, Arjun; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Najita, Joan; Schlafly, Edward F.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2023, NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY, ArXiv (arXiv:2306.11784) [4 citations]