I am a CAPS postdoctoral fellow at NCSA interested in investigating the nature of dark energy and the mysteries of galaxy evolution. In the past years, I have developed new methods for improving the 3-point correlation function analysis in galaxy surveys, such as DESI; I have worked on Euclid’s galaxy cluster detection pipeline, and on J-PAS/J-PLUS supernova detection pipeline; and I have conducted a theoretical study on how to optimize survey strategies in order to measure peculiar velocity fields with Type Ia supernovae from LSST. I have now been focusing on modeling Line Intensity Mapping experiments in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations and developing tools to analyze upcoming observational data.
contact information
- Email: ktgarcia@illinois.edu
- Address 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, Il 61801, USA
education
- PhD. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2024.
- M.Sc. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2019
- M.Sc. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Gainesville, FL, 2018
- B.Sc. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 2014
Awards and grants
- CAPS fellowship, NCSA, UIUC, USA
- BOE summer fellowship, UF, USA
Research interests
- Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
- Line-Intensity Mapping
- Galaxy and Galaxy Cluster Surveys
- Type Ia Supernovae
- Machine Learning Methods