Jesse Golden-Marx

I successfully defended my Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Astronomy Department at the University of Michigan in May, 2019. My advisor was Prof. Chris Miller. In the fall, I will be starting a postdoctoral fellowship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working with Prof. Ying Zu. My research interests are broadly focused on Galaxy Clusters, the Galaxy-Halo Connection, Brightest Central Galaxies (BCGs), and Galaxy Evolution.

Much of my dissertation focuesed on on constraining the Stellar Mass - Halo Mass Relation for the most massive Galaxy Clusters using the magnitude gap as a 3rd parameter. I have published a paper that shows how the SMHM relation evolves with redshift out to z=0.3 and my previous work focused on the SMHM relation for the local universe using SDSS observations as well as data from the MILLENNIUM simulation. I describe my research more fully on my Research page. I am currently working on extending this analysis out to z=0.6 using Dark Energy Survey (DES) data.

I received a Masters in Astronomy from Michigan in 2015. I did my undergraduate work at Brown University, where I graduated in 2013 with an Sc.B. in Physics with Honors.