Nico Hamaus

Ph.D.


Personal details

Name: Nico Hamaus

Work address: Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany

Citizenship: German

Phone (office): +49 (0)89 2180 9294

Email: hamaus[at]usm.lmu.de

Education

08/2008–08/2012: Ph.D. in physics, University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. Title: "Optimal Weights and Multiple Tracers in Large-Scale Structure", Advisor: Uroš Seljak


09/2002–01/2008: Diploma (equiv. to M.Sc.) in physics and astronomy (with distinction), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany & Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Garching, Germany. Title: "Simulation of Flares from the Galactic Center Black Hole", Advisor: Reinhard Genzel & Stefan Gillessen

Languages

German (native), English (fluent), French (proficient)

Linux, Shell script, Latex, Python, Cython, Numpy, Jupyter Notebooks, IDL, Yorick, R, Mathematica, Fortran, openMP, C++, Java, HTML, git, VScode, CLASS, VIDE

Research interests

Cosmology, Large-Scale Structure, Cosmic Voids, Galaxy Surveys, Redshift-Space Distortions, Primordial Non-Gaussianity, Gravitational Lensing, Testing GR, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Inflation, The Galactic Center Black Hole, Statistics, Simulations

Academic job history

06/2015–Present: Research fellow, Universitäts-Sternwarte München (USM), Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Germany


07/2013–06/2015: CNRS postdoctoral researcher at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI, France


09/2012–07/2013: International research fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), France


08/2008–08/2012: Ph.D. student at Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland, and UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), USA


01/2008–04/2008: Research assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) Garching, Germany


01/2007–01/2008: Master student at Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) Garching, Germany


06/2006–09/2006: Student assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) Garching, Germany

Teaching experience

(Co-)supervised 7 Ph.D. and 16 M.Sc. students

10/2023–02/2024: Teaching assistant for "Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure" at USM / LMU

10/2023–02/2024: Numerics lab supervisor for "MCMC" at USM / LMU

04/2023–07/2023: Lecturer for "Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure" seminar at USM / LMU

04/2023–07/2023: Teaching assistant for "Statistical Methods" at USM / LMU

10/2022–02/2023: Numerics lab supervisor for "MCMC" at USM / LMU

04/2022–07/2022: Numerics lab supervisor for "MCMC" at USM / LMU

10/2021–02/2022: Lecturer for "Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure" seminar at USM / LMU

04/2021–07/2021: Teaching assistant for "Statistical Methods" at USM / LMU

10/2020–02/2021: Lecturer for "Astrophysik II" at USM / LMU

04/2020–07/2020: Teaching assistant for "Statistical Methods" at USM / LMU

10/2019–02/2020: Teaching assistant for "Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure" at USM / LMU

09/2019–09/2019: Student physics lab supervisor for "P3B-Astro" at USM / LMU

04/2019–07/2019: Teaching assistant for "Essentials of Advanced Astrophysics" at USM / LMU

10/2018–02/2019: Teaching assistant for "Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure" at USM / LMU

04/2018–07/2018: Teaching assistant for "Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure" at USM / LMU

10/2017–02/2018: Teaching assistant for "Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure" at USM / LMU

09/2017–09/2017: Student physics lab supervisor for "P3B-Astro" at USM / LMU

06/2017–06/2017: Lecturer for "Postdoc/Staff Lecture Series on Cosmology" at MPA

04/2017–07/2017: Teaching assistant for "Statistical Methods" at USM / LMU

10/2016–02/2017: Teaching assistant for "Essentials of Advanced Astrophysics" at USM / LMU

04/2016–07/2016: Teaching assistant for "Einführung in die Kosmologie" at USM / LMU

02/2016–03/2016: Student physics lab supervisor for "P3A-Astro" at USM / LMU

09/2015–09/2015: Student physics lab supervisor for "P3B-Astro" at USM / LMU

02/2012–06/2012: Teaching assistant for "Physics II" at UZH / ETH

02/2011–06/2011: Teaching assistant for "Introduction to Astrophysics" at UZH / ETH

02/2010–06/2010: Teaching assistant for "Quantum Mechanics II" at UZH / ETH

02/2009–06/2009: Teaching assistant for "Theoretical Cosmology" at UZH / ETH

Selected conferences and talks

12/2023: Cambridge-LMU strategic partnership meeting, MPE, Garching, Germany

03/2023: Joint Astrophysical Colloquium, "Augusto Righi", University of Bologna, Italy

11/2022: AstroParticle Symposium, Institut Pascal, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France

06/2022: Interpretable and higher-order statistics for late-time cosmology, IFPU, Trieste, Italy

05/2022: Advances in Cosmology through Numerical Simulations, MIAPP, Garching, Germany

04/2022: Euclid Consortium Meeting, University of Oslo, Norway

11/2021: The Accelerating Universe 2.0, MIAPP, Garching, Germany

01/2021: Cambridge-LMU online cosmology workshop, Munich, Germany

12/2019: Cosmological Synergies in the upcoming decade, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France

10/2019: Astrophysical Colloquium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

09/2019: Cambridge-LMU workshop on the non-Gaussian Universe, University of Cambridge, UK

07/2019: MIAPP workshop on Dynamics of Large Scale Structure, Garching, Germany

06/2019: Gordon Research Conference on String Theory and Cosmology, Castelldefels, Spain

06/2019: The nature of Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

04/2019: Cambridge-LMU strategic partnership kick-off meeting, Munich, Germany

03/2019: DPG-Frühjahrstagung München19, Munich, Germany

01/2019: University Observatory Munich Colloquium, Munich, Germany

10/2018: Analytics, Inference, and Computation in Cosmology, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France

09/2018: Bahcall Lunch Talk, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

09/2018: Cosmology with Cosmic Voids, CCA, Flatiron Institute, New York, USA

03/2018: Ringberg Meeting of USM and MPE, Ringberg castle, Tegernsee, Germany

03/2018: 53rd Rencontres de Moriond - Cosmology 2018, La Thuile, Italy

10/2017: The Dark Universe 2017, LMU, Munich, Germany

06/2017: Euclid Consortium Meeting, UCL, London, UK

04/2017: Ringberg Meeting of USM and MPE, Ringberg castle, Tegernsee, Germany

02/2017: Euclid Galaxy Clustering Science Working Group Meeting, ICE, Barcelona, Spain

12/2016: Excellence Cluster Universe Science Week, MPE, Garching, Germany

07/2016: BAO & RSD: Dark Light on Obscure Acronyms, SCFA, Sesto, Italy

06/2016: From the Vacuum to the Universe, Humboldt Kolleg, Kitzbühel, Austria

06/2016: The 2016 Meeting of the German SKA Community, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

05/2016: The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Meeting, SLAC, Stanford, USA

03/2016: Ringberg Meeting of USM and MPE, Ringberg castle, Tegernsee, Germany

12/2015: Excellence Cluster Universe Science Week, MPE, Garching, Germany

10/2015: The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Meeting, IFT, Madrid, Spain

07/2015: Theoretical and Observational Progress on LSS of the Universe, ESO, Garching, Germany

08/2014: Cosmo 2014, KICP, Chicago, USA

08/2014: Cosmic Voids Workshop, CCAPP, Columbus, USA

07/2014: Collisionless Fluids, IAP, France

06/2014: IAU Symposium 308 – The Zeldovich Universe, Tallinn, Estonia

02/2014: Tracing the Cosmic Web, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands

10/2013: The Return of de Sitter II, MPA, Garching, Germany

07/2013: LSS13, CSF, Ascona, Switzerland

07/2012: Perturbative Approaches to Redshift-Space Distortions, UZH, Switzerland

05/2012: CosmoBias Workshop, LAM, Marseille, France

04/2012: MPA-IFT Spring Workshop on Large-Scale Structure, Madrid, Spain

06/2011: Conference on Cosmology since Einstein, HKUST, Hong Kong

05/2011: Cosmological Non-Gaussianity, University of Michigan, USA

05/2010: IEU-APCTP Workshop on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Seoul, South Korea

05/2010: APCTP-IEU Focus Program on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Pohang, South Korea

07/2009: CosmoStats, CSF, Ascona, Switzerland

07/2008: Summer School in Cosmology, ICTP Trieste, Italy

06/2007: MPE Ringberg Galactic Center Meeting, Ringberg, Germany

Peer reviewed journals

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astrophysical Journal

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Physical Review D

Physical Review Letters

Proceedings of the Royal Society A

Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

Public outreach

01/2021: Expert in online panel for "The Big Bang and Black Holes: In Celebration of Stephen Hawking’s Birthday" at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology in Cambridge, UK


01/2017: Public talk "Kosmologie: Die Lehre von Aufbau und Entwicklung des Universums" at Nicolaus-Copernicus-Planetarium, Nürnberg, Germany


10/2016: Article "Spuren des Urknalls" in journal "Unterricht Physik" for science teachers in Germany


08/2014: Event "Celebrating the Cosmic Web" at the Center of Science and Industry, COSI, Columbus, USA


09/2011: Event "Ausserirdische in Science... und Fiction" at Scientifica, UZH / ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

References

Prof. Jochen Weller
Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
Phone: +49 89 2180 5976
Email: jochen.weller[at]usm.lmu.de


Prof. Benjamin Wandelt
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Institut Lagrange de Paris, Sorbonne University
98bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1 44 32 81 43
Email: wandelt[at]iap.fr


Prof. Uroš Seljak
Physics and Astronomy Departments, University of California at Berkeley
359 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Phone: +1 510 666 2627
Email: useljak[at]berkeley.edu


Prof. Vincent Desjacques
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Lidow Physics Complex, Haifa, 3200003, Israel
Phone: +972 77 877 1458
Email: dvince[at]physics.technion.ac.il


Prof. Joseph Silk
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris,
98bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1 44 32 80 54
Email: silk[at]iap.fr


Dr. Stefan Gillessen
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Gießenbachstrasse 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
Phone: +49 89 30000 3839
Email: ste[at]mpe.mpg.de