About

Brant Robertson is a Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include theoretical topics related to galaxy formation, dark matter, hydrodynamics, machine learning, and numerical simulation methodologies. Please have a look at his curriculum vita and the publication list from his group.

Brant was previously the John and Maureen Hendricks Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ in 2019, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona from 2011-2015. He held a Hubble Fellowship in the Astronomy Department at the California Institute of Technology from 2009-2011, and a Spitzer and Institute Fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago from 2006-2009. Brant earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 2006, and received his B.S. in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2001.