Stephen Chen (陳師凡) is a postdoctoral researcher in the physics department at Columbia University via the NASA Hubble fellowship. From 2022-5, he was a postdoctoral member at the Institute for Advanced Study. He obtained his PhD in the Physics Department at UC Berkeley working with Martin White. He's originally from a little island nation in the Pacific.
His research in cosmology is broadly focused on using the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe to constrain fundamental physics. Much of his research focuses on modeling cosmological observables using effective field theories in order to robustly extract signatures of fundamental physics from the sea of other cool stuff going on–exploding stars, active black holes at the centers of galaxies, etc.
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Colin Hill