About Me

I go by Farhan (pronounced FAAR-HAAN)

 

I was born and raised in Bangladesh, a country with half as many people as the U.S. and slightly smaller land area than the state of Georgia. I graduated from high school in 2014, having finished Cambridge Ordinary and Advanced Levels.​

 

I arrived in the U.S. in August 2014  to attend Reed College in Portland, OR. It was here that I masqueraded as a physics student and developed an interest in Astrophysics, through research experiences in various aspects of galaxy evolution, including dusty star formation (at UC Irvine), spatially resolved star formation (at Reed), and the statistics of nearby galaxies and supermassive black holes (senior thesis at Reed).

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I moved to Las Cruces, NM. in summer of 2018 to begin my PhD in Astronomy at New Mexico State University. I have worked with Profs. Chris Churchill and Joe Burchett on gaseous galactic ecosystems and the large scale distribution of matter in the universe. I have also forayed into data visualization for scientific analysis and theoretical cosmological simulations. I recently defended my PhD dissertation (July 2024), titled "On the Evolution of Galaxies in Cosmic Ecosystems". See my research page to learn more.

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Outside of astronomy, I enjoy playing, making and listening to music, venturing into the outdoors for hiking, cooking, making art, playing soccer (I mean football), and collecting rocks and fossils. 

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