Romeel Davé, SARChI Chair (UWC/SAAO/AIMS), CET Director
I use hydrodynamic simulations on high-performance supercomputers to understand how the observable Universe evolves from the Big Bang until today. Interests include:
- Galaxy Formation
- Intergalactic Medium
- Reionization
- Chemical Evolution
- Galactic Outflows
- Cosmology
FACULTY
CET MEMBERS
The CET, situated in the Astrophysics Group at the University of the Western Cape, currently has:
- 3 faculty
- 4 postdoctoral fellows
- 2 Ph.D. students
- 2 M.Sc.+Honours students
- 2 affiliate faculty
Scroll down to read more about their research interests!
Roy Maartens, SKA Chair (UWC)
Interests: Cosmology, dark energy, SKA
Bruce Bassett, Senior Researcher (AIMS), Professor (UCT), Astronomer (SAAO)
Interests: Cosmology, early Universe, astrostatistics
POSTDOCS
Ph.D. STUDENTS
M.Sc. + Honours STUDENTS
Robert Thompson (Arizona-Cape Town Fellow)
Zoom simulations of disk galaxy formation, Bullet Cluster
Sourav Mitra (CET Fellow)
Reionization, analytic and semi-analytic galaxy formation models
Daniel Cunnama (SKA Fellow)
HI and cosmic rays in Gadget cosmological simulations
Sultan Hassan (UWC)
21cm Epoch of Reionization experiment predictions & forecasting
Mika Rafieferantsoa (UWC)
HI in galaxies as a function of environment
Mario Santos (UWC)
Cosmology, HI 21cm intensity mapping, reionization
AFFILIATE FACULTY
Vimal Simha (CET Fellow)
Satellites, merging, and halo occupancy models; cosmology
Catherine Cress (Centre for High Performance Computing)
HI surveys, computational galaxy formation and cosmology
Clemence Mungwariri (UWC)
Galaxy quenching in dense environments via merging and hot gas
Nicole Thomas (UWC)
Cosmological simulations with GIZMO