CV

My long CV can be seen here.

Education

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, USA (2022-present)
Postdoctoral fellow, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taiwan (2018-2022)

Funding for Cycle 2 JWST GO 4246 program ($223,764) as PI, Physical Properties of a Possible Galaxy Merger at z=10.2 (2024-present)
The Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship, for Master and Doctoral studies at Tohoku University (2013-2018)
Silver medal, Physics category in the National Olympiad of Mathematics and Natural Sciences for undergraduate students in Indonesia (2013)
Silver medal, Physics category in the National Olympiad of Mathematics and Natural Sciences for undergraduate students in Indonesia (2012)

(2023-2024) Remotely supervising undergraduate student Muhammad Nur Ihsan Effendi, from Institute Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. He recently graduated with a Bachelor’s thesis project on studying the structures and morphologies of galaxies at z>2 with JWST data. He is currently a graduate student at ITB.
(2023-present) Remotely supervising undergraduate student Novan Saputra Haryana, from Institute Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. He recently graduated with a Bachelor’s thesis project on studying passive galaxies at 2<z<7 with JWST and HST data. From Fall 2024, he is a graduate student at Tohoku University.
(2022-2024) Remotely co-supervising graduate student Han‑Tang Lin, from National Central University, Taiwan. Project topic: spatially resolved stellar populations of Supernova‑host galaxies in the local universe. He completed the project and published a paper in an international journal (MNRAS, 531, 1988).
(2023) Co‑mentoring undergraduate student Turaba Rahman, from Kent State University, USA, at the 2023 SASP (Space Astronomy Summer Program) held by STScI.
(2022) Lecturer at the International Virtual Course (IVC) on Astrophysical Modeling and Computation, held by Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. Lecture materials on GitHub repository.

2025 - Invited talk at Workshop of Observational Astronomy, AOS Indonesia, held in Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. Talk title: Observations of early galaxies in the era of JWST. Slides
2023 - Physics talk at the Department of Physics, IPB University, Indonesia. Talk title: The Hunt for First Galaxies in the Universe with JWST. Recording
2022 - 100-hour Astronomy as part of the IAU Global Outreach Project organized by the National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN). Talk title: The science missions of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. Recording
2021 - Virtual public lecture at the Physics Department, Brawijaya University, Indonesia. Talk title: Astrostatistics and Big Data for Understanding the Universe’s evolution. Recording