Personal profile
Biography
I joined the ICG as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2022, supported by a Royal Society URF. Before that I was a McWilliams Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, and before that a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. I obtained my PhD from Stanford University in 2017.
Research Interests
I am interested primarily in developing new tests of the standard model of cosmology (gravity and/or dark sector physics) using astrophysical objects, mainly galaxies and stars. My work ranges from pure theory, through N-body and hydrodynamical simulations to statistical data analysis. I am also interested in galaxy formation and how best to characterise the relation between galaxies and their host dark matter halos.
Keywords
- QC Physics
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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1.8 percent measurement of H0 from Cepheids alone
Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Tsaprazi, E., Heavens, A., Lavaux, G., McAlpine, S. & Jasche, J., 1 Feb 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 2, 24 p., staf2260.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clustering properties of the CatWISE2020 quasar catalogue and their impact on the cosmic dipole anomaly
Von Hausegger, S., Secrest, N., Desmond, H., Rameez, M., Mohayaee, R. & Sarkar, S., 1 Mar 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 4, 18 p., stag201.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The galaxy–environment connection revealed by constrained simulations
Gallagher, C., Yasin, T., Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H. & Jarvis, M. J., 1 Mar 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 3, 17 p., stag108.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Velocity Field Olympics: assessing velocity field reconstructions with direct distance tracers
Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Devriendt, J., Slyz, A., Lavaux, G., Hudson, M. J., Bartlett, D. J. & Courtois, H. M., 1 Jan 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545, 2, 24 p., staf1960.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Challenges to a sharp change in G as a solution to the Hubble tension
Banik, I., Desmond, H. & Samaras, N., 1 May 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539, 2, p. 1553-1561 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Exhaustive Symbolic Regression Function Sets
Bartlett, D. J. (Creator), Desmond, H. (Creator) & Ferreira, P. G. (Creator), Zenodo, 10 Apr 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10955719, https://zenodo.org10955719 and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/7339113 (show fewer)
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The underlying radial acceleration relation -- supplementary data
Desmond, H. (Creator), Zenodo, 20 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7752545, https://zenodo.org/record/7752545
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Projects
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Cosmology seminar
Desmond, H. (Speaker)
Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Astronomy seminar
Desmond, H. (Speaker)
Feb 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Astrophysics colloquium
Desmond, H. (Speaker)
Feb 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Cosmology seminar
Desmond, H. (Speaker)
Feb 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Cosmology journal club presentation
Desmond, H. (Speaker)
Jan 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation