Minh Nguyen

(Nguyễn Nhật Minh)

Astrophysicist and Cosmologist

Research Fellow at the Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, University of Michigan

A summary of my education and research can be found in my CV. Below and in other tabs, you will find elaborate information that are hopefully useful.

I model and combine different probes of large-scale structure in our Universe to gain insights into gravity, Dark Energy, and structure formation. I conduct my research in collaboration with Prof. Dragan Huterer's group at the Physics Department, University of Michigan -
where I work as a Leinweber Research Fellow.

I enjoy collaboration as much as research. I am a member of the MPA LEFTfield group, the Aquila consortium and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration.

I love doing public outreach and have, for example, participated in the "Skype a Scientist", APS' Physicists To-Go and UM's Science Communication Fellows programs. I firmly believe in science popularization as a mean to improve diversity and inclusivity in science. In 2021, I inititaed and have since been organizing the (virtual) VLLT Joint Seminar Series on Physics & Astrophysics, geared towards students in Vietnam. I describe these activities further in SOCIAL.

I was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, Germany. There I have worked with Fabian Schmidt on Bayesian forward modeling of galaxy clustering and its application to cosmological or astrophysical inference.

I obtained my PhD through the IMPRS-astro program, a partnership between the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and astro institutes around Munich, in July 2020 amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. We had to wait a few months to celebrate my graduation (hence the distance between people in the above picture). I stayed in Munich for another year and a half to wait for the pandemic to calm down and also to resolve some visa issues.

Before MPA and Munich, from 2014 to 2016, I was an AstroMundus master student studying in Innsbruck, Rome and Göttingen. I wrote my Master thesis with Thorsten Battefeld on stabilizing numerical construction of the inflaton potential in multifield inflationary models.

On this page, you can find more information about: my research and academic background under the RESARCH tab, my talks and visits under the TRAVEL tab, my social activities and hobbies under the SOCIAL tab, my outreach activities under the OUTREACH tab, my science illustrations under the SCIART tab, my random suggestions under the RANDOM tab, and finally how to connect with me under the CONTACT tab.