Job at Brookhaven

I accepted a tenure track job at Brookhaven National Laboratory yesterday. As I mentioned in my last post, astrophysics is a new direction for the lab and I am their first hire in that field. It will be partly my responsibility to build a strong cosmology program there. To start with we will hire one more astrophysicist this year, and we will bring in a postdoc the following year.

I will also spend one day a week in the city at Columbia or NYU where I have collaborators and there are regular seminar series. That way I can stay in contact with the community while we build a program at Brookhaven. At Brookhaven we will also start our own seminar series to bring in interesting speakers and make the lab an active center for astrophysics and cosmology. It would be good to coordinate this seminar series with nearby Stony Brook. We also plan to expand the group in the near future to include more tenure track positions.

At first I'll continue my work with SDSS data and preparation for the Dark Energy Survey. The lab is also a member of LSST, a longer term project in which I will become heavily involved. People at the lab are building the detectors and I would focus on software pipelines and analysis.

This job is a great opportunity and a good fit for me. The kind of resources I need for my work are plentiful there and our long term goals are well-aligned.

I will stay near New York where I've made a lot of good friends, and I will continue with the Chorus. This is the first move since I left home that I don't have to completely dig up my roots, and that's a good feeling.