People

Princeton enjoys an active and thriving local dynamics community (see also here). I am lucky to work with an extremely talented group of postdocs and students in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, as well as with collaborators at the Princeton Gravity Initiative (PGI), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), and other external institutions.

Group members

Current

April Cheng

April Cheng

Graduate student

Lekshmi Thulasidharan

Dr Lekshmi Thulasidharan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Mila Winter-Granic

Mila Winter-Granic

Graduate student

Eritas Yang

Eritas Yang

Graduate student (primary adviser: Prof Josh Winn)

Former

Shaunak Modak

Shaunak Modak

Graduate student, co-supervised with Prof Eve Ostriker and Prof Scott Tremaine. PhD thesis (2026): “Interstellar Medium-Driven Orbital Transport in Galactic Disks”. Associated papers: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. Next step: Joint postdoctoral fellow at the CCA and CITA.

Jupiter Ding

Jupiter Ding

Undergraduate student, co-supervised with Prof Scott Tremaine and Prof Matthew Kunz. Senior thesis (2025): “Plasma Echo Analogues in Galactic Disk Dynamics”. Associated paper: [1]. Next step: Graduate student at Northwestern.

Other local collaborators

Dr Abhishek Hegade (PGI), Dr Ygal Klein (IAS), Prof Matt Kunz (PU Astro & PPPL), Dr Andrew Mummery (IAS), Prof Eve Ostriker (PU Astro), Dr Gimmy Tomaselli (IAS), and Prof Scott Tremaine (IAS).

Dynamics meetings

During the University semesters we have weekly, highly-informal blackboard-only meetings to share progress and present ideas. To be added to the mailing list please email me.