Associate Professor
Office: 533 Physics Building
Email: awetzel@ucdavis.edu
Personal Professional Website:
http://wetzel.ucdavis.edu
Research Interests:
• Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology
• Cosmological simulations and computational methods
• Cosmological structure formation: halos, galaxies, and stars
• Near-field cosmology: dark matter and its distribution in the local Universe
• Galactic archeology: the formation histories of the Milky Way, Andromeda, and dwarf galaxies
Research Areas
Career History
- Associate Professor - University of California, Davis, 2021 - present
- Assistant Professor - University of California, Davis, 2016 - 2021
- Caltech-Carnegie Fellow - California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories, 2013 - 2017
- Postdoctoral Research Associate - Yale University, 2010 - 2013
- Ph.D. in Astrophysics - University of California, Berkeley, 2010
- B.S. in Physics - Harvey Mudd College, 2005
Honors
- Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award - UC Davis, 2022
- NSF CAREER Award, 2021
- UC Davis Hellman Fellow, 2019
- Scialog Fellow - Research Corporation and Heising-Simons Foundation, 2018, 2019
- Carnegie Fellow - Carnegie Observatories, 2013 - 2017
- Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow - National Academy of Sciences, 2013
- Moore Prize Scholar - California Institute of Technology, 2013 - 2017