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Fabian Schmidt is a Professor (Forschungsgruppenleiter) at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, Germany. He specializes in cosmology, focusing on dark matter, dark energy, and the evolution of cosmic structures. His research explores the universe's composition, history, and the mechanisms behind primordial density fluctuations.
Education: Diplom (equivalent to MSc) in cosmic gamma rays from Humboldt University Berlin, PhD (2005-2009) at the University of Chicago under advisors Scott Dodelson and Wayne Hu. Held fellowships at Caltech (Moore Fellow) and Princeton (NASA CXC Einstein Fellow) before joining MPA in 2013.
Research interests include cosmological observables in general relativity, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) reconstruction, and field-level inference techniques. His group is funded by the Excellence Cluster Origins and MPA resources, with ongoing work on large-scale structure, gravitational lensing, and dark matter physics.
Notable contributions span theoretical cosmology, computational methods for galaxy clustering analysis, and Bayesian forward modeling. His team advises PhD students and postdocs in areas like EFT-based BAO reconstruction, simulation-based inference, and dark matter dynamics.
Outreach: Active in public talks (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften) and collaborations with science journalists. Co-author of Modern Cosmology textbook (2nd ed. 2020, 3rd ed. 2025), addressing topics like inflation and quantum vacuum cosmology.
