Adrien Thob

Adrien Thob is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Physics & Astronomy, part of the Galaxy Dynamics @ UPenn group led by Prof. Robyn Sanderson. He holds a PhD in Galaxy Formation & Computational Cosmology from Liverpool John Moores University (UK), an M.Sc. in Astronomy from the Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France), and an engineering degree in Telecommunication and Signal Processing from IMT Atlantique (France).

His research focuses on galaxy formation mechanisms using cosmological simulations (EAGLE, E-MOSAICS, FIRE) and synthetic observations for telescopes like Roman and JWST. He develops Python-based tools such as wpipe (pipeline manager), dustpy (radiative transfer), and py-ananke (synthetic observation wrapper). His work bridges engineering and astrophysics, leveraging high-performance computing and software engineering skills.

Outreach activities include creating simulation visualizations featured in planetarium shows and his Vimeo channel. Notable contributions include analyzing dark matter halo structures' impact on galaxy morphology and kinematics, published in MNRAS and presented at conferences like EWASS 2018.