Aaron Yung is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center, working on various projects related to exploring the primordial universe with the James Webb Space Telescope and the Roman Space Telescope. Prior to joining NASA, Aaron obtained his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from the University of San Francisco in 2014. After that, he pursued graduate study under the direction of Rachel Somerville in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. In 2016, Aaron joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York as a visiting researcher and remained there until the completion of his PhD. Aaron's dissertation research has been published in a series of work entitled “Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST”, which he studied the co-evolution of galaxy formation and cosmic reionization using semi-analytic methods.
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10/2020
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Present
NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow
Astrophysics Science Division,
Goddard Space Flight Center
9/2016
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9/2020
Flatiron Visiting Researcher
Center for Computational Astrophysics,
Flatiron Institute
Ph.D., Astrophysics, Rutgers University, 2020
B.S., Physics, Univ. of San Francisco, 2014
B.S., Mathematics, Univ. of San Francisco, 2014
American Astronomical Society,
2020
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Present
Full Member
International Astronomical Union,
2022
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Present
Junior Member
JWST Cycle 1 Theory Research,
NASA / STScI
Constraining the Seeding and Growth of First Black Holes via Observable Signatures from the Early Universe
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PI
Aaron Yung is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center, working on various projects related to exploring the primordial universe with the James Webb Space Telescope and the Roman Space Telescope. Prior to joining NASA, Aaron obtained his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from the University of San Francisco in 2014. After that, he pursued graduate study under the direction of Rachel Somerville in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. In 2016, Aaron joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York as a visiting researcher and remained there until the completion of his PhD. Aaron's dissertation research has been published in a series of work entitled “Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST”, which he studied the co-evolution of galaxy formation and cosmic reionization using semi-analytic methods.
Personal Website
Full CV in PDF
List of Publications on ADS
