Welcome to Farnik Nikakhtar who comes to us as a postdoctoral associate from the University of Pennsylvania. He is working with Nikhil Padmanabhan and Marla Geha in Evans Hall (56 Hillhouse Avenue) in the areas of Cosmology and Astrophysics.
Farnik received his Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania, along with a dual Master’s degree in Statistics from the Wharton School. While at Penn, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (NSF GRFP). His research centers on ideas that address the observable effects of both dark energy and dark matter. From the theoretical side, he is interested in Optimal Transport Theory and the fundamental connections this theory has with the physical questions from galactic to cosmological scales. Prior to Penn, he completed his B.Sc. in Physics (minor in Computer Science) at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.