J. Colin Hill
Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics
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J. Colin Hill
Research Interest
Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves, and CosmologyColin Hill joined the Columbia University Physics Department as an assistant professor in August 2019. He received a Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University in 2014, following undergraduate and master's degrees at MIT and Cambridge University, respectively. He was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows, hosted at Columbia, from 2014-2017 and a postdoctoral member at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2017-19. He held a joint position as an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute from 2019-2022. His work was recognized with a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2022 and is also supported by NASA, NSF, and the Department of Energy.
Prof. Hill's research is in physical cosmology. He analyzes cosmological data to search for evidence of new physics and to understand processes involved in structure formation. Much of his work focuses on the cosmic microwave background radiation. He is a member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4 collaborations, as well as the Rubin Observatory LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.
Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect with Projected Fields: A Novel Probe of the Baryon Distribution with Planck, WMAP, and WISE Data
Early dark energy does not restore cosmological concordance
The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts
Toward an understanding of foreground emission in the BICEP2 region
Detection of thermal SZ-CMB lensing cross-correlation in Planck nominal mission data
Arxiv
Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Simons Observatory
CMB-S4
Rubin LSST DESC
I occasionally tweet about cosmology on Twitter.
Courses Taught
Fall 2019Physical Cosmology
3 pts, GR6010Spring 2019