E-mail: afialkov@ast.cam.ac.uk
Office: Hoyle H57
Office Tel: (01223) 766095
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Research Themes: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Instrumentation, Surveys and Projects, X-ray Astrophysics
Research Keywords: Cosmology, Dark Matter, Dwarf Galaxies, Early Universe, Galaxy Formation/Evolution, High Redshift, IGM, Instruments, Intermediate Redshift, Radio, Theory, X-ray
From dark ages to the present days including astrophysics and cosmology with the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen, intensity mapping of other molecular and atomic lines, structure formation, nature of dark matter, transient phenomena such as Fast Radio Bursts, low frequency radio observations and instrumentation.
"Emulating the Global 21-cm Signal from Cosmic Dawn and Reionization", A. Cohen, A. Fialkov, R. Barkana, R. Monsalve, submitted to MNRAS
"A Fast Radio Burst in the Direction of the Virgo Cluster", A., Devansh, Lorimer, D. R., Fialkov, A., et al., 2019, MNRAS, 490, 1
"First Star-Forming Structures in Fuzzy Cosmic Filaments", P. Mocz, A. Fialkov, M. Vogelsberger, et al., 2019, PRL, 123, 1301
"Results from EDGES High-Band III: New Constraints on the Parameters of the Early Universe", R. Monsalve, A. Fialkov, J. D. Bowman, et al., 2019, ApJ, 875, 67
"The Observable Signature of Late Heating of the Universe during Cosmic Reionization", A. Fialkov, R. Barkana, E. Visbal, 2014, Nature, 506, 197
Oct 2019 - Present: Royal Society Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Astronomy
Jan-Sept 2019: Royal Society Fellow at the University of Sussex
Oct-Dec 2018: Senior Kavli Fellowship at the Institute of Astronomy and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge
2015-2018: ITC Fellowship at the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard
2013-2015: Junior Research Chair (JRC) position at the International Center for fundamental Physics at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS-ICFP) Ecole Normale Superiore (ENS), Paris.
Ph.D. in physics at the Department of Particle Physics at Tel Aviv University working with Prof. Nissan Itzhaki and Prof. Rennan Barkana.
B.Sc. in Physics and a B.A. in Electrical Engineering (specializing in Electro-optics and Digital Signal Processing) in 2006, the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.