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I am a recent postdoc addition to the CosmoStat group at CEA Saclay. I am working with Jean-Luc Starck and other members of the team on weak lensing projects related to the Euclid mission. Contact Information: |
Research
I have joined the CosmoStat team with the intention of applying and extending the sophisticated mathematical techniques developed in this lab (e.g., weak lensing mass mapping using sparsity-based methods) toward constraining cosmology. In particular, my work will be aimed at taking advantage of the future high-quality Euclid data to learn more about the dark sector of the Universe.
My PhD work lived more on the theoretical side of cosmology. In my thesis, I studied the growth of structures and light propagation in a certain class of general non-symmetric spacetimes called Szekeres models. The Szekeres metric is an inhomogeneous and anisotropic exact solution of Einstein's equations, which provides a good testing ground to explore nonlinear general relativistic effects in astrophysical and cosmological scenarios.
Education
I completed my PhD in cosmology at The University of Texas at Dallas in 2015 under the supervision of Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki.
Publications
- Effect of inhomogeneities on high precision measurements of cosmological distances
A. Peel, M. A. Troxel, and M. Ishak
Phys. Rev. D 90, 123536 (2014) - The effects of structure anisotropy on lensing observables in an exact general relativistic setting for precision cosmology
M. A. Troxel, M. Ishak, and A. Peel
JCAP 03 (2014) 040 - Stringent Restriction from the Growth of Large-Scale Structure on Apparent Acceleration in Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models
M. Ishak, A. Peel, and M. A. Troxel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 251302 (2013) - Effects of anisotropy on gravitational infall in galaxy clusters using an exact general relativistic model
M. A. Troxel, A. Peel, and M. Ishak
JCAP 12 (2013) 048 - Large-scale growth evolution in the Szekeres inhomogeneous cosmological models with comparison to growth data
A. Peel, M. Ishak, and M. A. Troxel
Phys. Rev. D 86, 123508 (2012) - Growth of structure in the Szekeres class-II inhomogeneous cosmological models and the matter-dominated era
M. Ishak and A. Peel
Phys. Rev. D 85, 083502 (2012)
Talks and Presentations
- General meeting of the Texas Astronomical Society, invited guest speaker, Apr. 2015
- 50th Anniversary of the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, contributed talk, Dec. 2013
- Joint meeting of the Texas sections of APS, AAPT, and Zone 13 SPS, contributed talk, Oct. 2012
- 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, poster presentation, Jan. 2012
