Assistant Professor

One Shields Avenue
Physics Department
Davis, CA 95616

Office: 533 Physics Building
Phone: (701)426-9762
Email: awetzel@ucdavis.edu

Personal Website: http://wetzel.ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, Cosmological structure formation and galaxy formation, Near-field cosmology and galactic archaeology, The Milky Way and the Local Group, Groups and clusters of galaxies and Cosmological simulations

Research Areas

• Cosmology

Career History

• B.S. in Physics - Harvey Mudd College, 2005
• Ph.D. in Astrophysics - University of California, Berkeley, 2010
• Postdoctoral Research Associate - Yale University, 2010 - 2013
• Caltech-Carnegie Fellow - California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories, 2013 - 2017
• Assistant Professor - University of California, Davis, 2016 - present

Honors

• Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow - National Academy of Sciences, 2013
• Moore Fellow - California Institute of Technology, 2013 - 2017
• Carnegie Fellow - Carnegie Observatories, 2013 - 2017
• Scialog Fellow - Research Corporation and Heising-Simons Foundation, 2018, 2019
• UC Davis Hellman Fellow, 2019