I am a NASA Hubble and ITC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation, which is a part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University. I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2019.

I specialize in computational astrophysics. I investigate how galaxies form and evolve and to this end, together with my collaborators, I design and analyze supercomputer simulations of galaxies. My previous and current research focuses on the following topics:

  • cosmological galaxy formation simulations
  • formation of galactic disks
  • the origin of inefficient star formation
  • the origin of star formation scaling relations
  • interstellar turbulence
  • cosmic rays
  • numerical methods

I can be reached at 
vadim.semenov@cfa.harvard.edu