Nikhil Padmanabhan

Nikhil Padmanabhan is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2006, working with Uros Seljak. He was a Hubble Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2006 to 2009 and has been at Yale ever since. His research covers both observational and theoretical aspects of large-scale structure determination with galaxy surveys, with a focus on using baryon acoustic oscillation measurements to measure the expansion history of the Universe.