James Sullivan

Jamie Sullivan studies the large-scale structure of the Universe, and how observational probes of this structure inform fundamental physics. He works to understand the formation of large-scale structure and how observed galaxies trace it through both analytical and numerical techniques. As a Ph.D. student, Department of Energy Computational Sciences Graduate Fellow, and Office of Science Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, Jamie developed methods for more optimally extracting information from cosmological galaxy survey summary statistics. Currently, his research is oriented toward answering questions about the earliest moments of the Universe—those that are well-modeled by cosmic inflation. As a Brinson Prize Fellow at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Jamie will build tools for learning more about the early Universe from galaxy surveys and apply these tools to upcoming observational data, including from space-based observatories.