Noah Sailer

Cosmologist
Postdoc @ Stanford / Cambridge

I’m a cosmologist who spends most of my time being confused analyzing large-scale structure data to better inform physical models of our universe’s history. I’m currently based at Stanford/SLAC (KIPAC) as a Porat Fellow. I have a joint appointment at Cambridge (DAMTP) as a Senior Research Associate / Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellow, and plan to hop the pond in 2027.

I was previously a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, advised by Martin White and Simone Ferraro. I spent most of my time at the BCCP and one year as a DOE SCGSR Fellow at LBNL. Before moving to the best coast, I studied physics and math at Cornell University. During that time I experimented with being an experimentalist in Michael Niemack’s group, where I was primarily advised by Eve Vavagiakis.

I grew up in western Virginia with zero interest in physics or astronomy1 until my senior year of high school, when I took my first physics class. In my free time I enjoy playing in the ocean, lounging with Mr. May, backpacking, consuming music of all form(at)s, and scouring the streets of San Francisco for the perfect breakfast sandwich.

  1. but plenty of interest in dirt bikes and reptiles ↩