Hi, I’m Janvi! I’m a graduate student worker pursuing a PhD in Astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. I work with Dr. Charlotte Welker at CUNY and Dr. Colin Norman at JHU. You can find details about my current project using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations here.. Working with Charlotte and an amazing team of undergraduate students, masters students, PhD students, and post-docs, I have found my science home in the Gotham Web Lab. We study everything from star formation histories, dwarf galaxies, and galactic dynamics to large-scale structure and the cosmic web. We are a group of both observers and theorists. Learn more about the talented scientists in our group by visiting our website, here!

As a researcher, I am most interested in answering cosmological questions about the birth of the universe, inflation, dark energy driven expansion, and structure formation and evolution. I am also interested in computationally modeling cosmological phenomena to help us answer these questions. You can find a link to my CV here or you can click the little book icon at the top right of the page.

Outside of science, I try to make time for baking, painting, exploring nature, or reading! You can check out some of my recent interests like baking sourdough bread or film photography here! Most of my free time however is spent organizing in my community or workplace. I deeply believe in anchoring into a collective practice of taking care of each other in a politics of interdependence. Putting care at the center of our relationships with each other and the natural world, I am driven to organize against the exploitation of our labor, extraction of resources, and all systems that prioritize profit over people and the planet. In the battle of imaginations, I find radical hope in the collective!