Hello!

I’m Yue Pan, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at Princeton University. I study how galaxies form, evolve, and interact with their cosmic environments, using a combination of computational modeling, large cosmological simulations, and observations.

On the computational side, I am interested in bringing detailed hydrodynamical simulations together with fast, physically motivated semi-analytic models. My current questions revolve around how galaxies produce and distribute metals, how their growth is shaped by the local cosmic environment, and how the spatially and temporally patchy epoch of reionization affected the smallest galaxies. I also work on the high-performance-computing side of these problems, from developing the CAMELS-RAMSES galaxy-formation model to accelerating RAMSES on GPUs.

On the observational side, I use the Merian Survey to study bright satellite galaxies around Milky Way analogs and to explore how star formation is distributed across dwarf galaxies. Across these projects, my goal is to connect the small-scale physics of gas, stars, feedback, and radiation to the rich variety of galaxies we see across the universe.

You can read more about these projects on my Research page. Please also feel free to explore the rest of the site - and thanks for visiting!