CV

You can download a PDF copy of my full CV here. A short summary is below.

Appointments

Postdoctoral Fellow in Space Security and Sustainability, Outer Space Institute and University of British Columbia, 2024-
Fulbright Research Scholar, Leiden University, 2018-19

B.S. in Astrophysics and History, Caltech, 2018
M.A. in Astrophysics, Princeton University, 2021
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, Princeton University, 2024

Dalal, R., National Security Interests in Relation to Dark and Quiet Skies (Proceedings of IAU Symposium 385, in press)
Ding, J., Dalal, R., et al. Miscentering of Optical Galaxy Clusters Based on Sunyaev-Zeldovich Counterparts (in collaboration review)
Dalal, R., Li, X., Nicola, A., Zuntz, J. et al., Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear Power Spectra, PRD 108, 123519 (2023)
Li, X., Zhang, T., Sugiyama, S., Dalal, R. et al., Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear Two-point Correlation Functions, PRD 108, 123518 (2023)
Pobre, S., Dalal, R., Strauss, M., Lin, Y-T., Are Brightest Cluster Galaxies Special?, RNAAS 19 (2023) 7 (primary advisor)
Zhang, T., Li, X., Dalal, R., et al., A General Framework for Removing Point Spread Function Systematics in Cosmological Weak Lensing Analysis, (2023, accepted by MNRAS)
Rau, M. M., Dalal, R., Zhang, T., Li, X., et al., Weak Lensing Tomographic Redshift Distribution Inference for the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program three-year shape catalogue, (2023, accepted by MNRAS)
Martinelli, M., Dalal, R., Majidi, F., Akrami, Y., et al., Ultralarge-scale approximations and galaxy clustering: Debiasing constraints on cosmological parameters, MNRAS 510 (2022) 1964
Dalal, R., Strauss, M. A., Sunayama, T., Oguri, M., et al., Brightest cluster galaxies are statistically special from z=0.3 to z=1 MNRAS 507 (2021) 4016

Spring 2023: SPI353 - Science and Global Security, Guest Lecturer (Princeton)
Fall 2021: AST255 - Life in the Universe, Assistant in Instruction (Princeton)
Spring 2021: AST204 - Topics in Modern Astronomy, Assistant in Instruction (Princeton)
Spring 2017, 2018: Ay1 - The Evolving Universe, Teaching Assistant (Caltech)
Winter 2018: Ph2b - Quantum Mechanics, Teaching Assistant (Caltech)

Jupiter Ding, Miscentering of HSC CAMIRA clusters based on ACT SZ counterparts, Undergraduate Summer Research Program and Junior Paper (2022)
Savannah Pobre, Understanding tests of BCG specialness, Undergraduate Summer Research Program and Junior Paper (2021)