CV
My long CV can be seen here.
Education
- Ph.D in Astronomy, Tohoku University, Japan (2015-2018)
- M.S. in Astronomy, Tohoku University, Japan (2013-2015)
- B.S. in Physics, Brawijaya University, Indonesia (2009-2013)
Academic Appointment
- 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)
Honors, Awards, and Funding
- 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)
Publications
- Full list of my publications can be seen at ADS
Community Service
- Journal referee for ApJ, A&A, MNRAS
- Proposal review external panel for ALMA Large Program in Cycle 11
Mentoring and Teaching
- (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.
Major Collaborations
- Cosmic Spring JWST (2022-present)
- Euclid Consortium (2021-present)
- BEACON JWST (2023-present)
- VST-SMASH (2023-present)
- SDSS-IV/MaNGA (2019-2022)
Public Outreach Talk
- Physics talk at the Department of Physics, IPB University, Indonesia. Talk title: The Hunt for First Galaxies in the Universe with JWST. Recording
- 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
- Virtual public lecture at the Physics Department, Brawijaya University, Indonesia. Talk title: Astrostatistics and Big Data for Understanding the Universe’s evolution. Recording