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