Yacine Ali-Haïmoud. Curriculum Vitae

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1 Yacine Curriculum Vitae New York University Department of Physics 726 Broadway New York, NY Office: 939 Phone: +1 (626) Url: RESEARCH INTERESTS EMPLOYMENT 08/2017-present Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology: cosmological recombination, large-scale structure formation, dark matter, cosmological neutrinos, CMB spectral distortions, gravity, spinning dust radiation, interstellar dust. Assistant professor, New York University Physics department 09/ /2017 Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University Physics & Astronomy 09/ /2014 Postdoctoral member, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) EDUCATION California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) MSc (06/2008) and PhD (06/2011) in astrophysics Advisor: Prof. C. M. Hirata. Thesis: Primordial Hydrogen Recombination École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) Diplôme de l École Polytechnique (05/2008) Lycée Pierre de Fermat (Toulouse, France) Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles MPSI, MP* (Maths & Physics) AWARDS AND HONORS 2018 AAS Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy Fellow of the Carnot Foundation ( LANGUAGES French, English, Spanish, Arabic COMPUTER SKILLS Proficient in IDL and C. Working knowledge of FORTRAN 90 and C++

2 Yacine CV! 2/6 STUDENT SUPERVISION Undergraduates: Sihan Yuan (1 publication), Sotiris Gkoulimaris Graduates: Julián Muñoz (2 publications), Patrick Breysse, Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh TEACHING AND OUTREACH Fall 2017 Graduate-level General Relativity (PHYS-GA 2060) Teacher, Princeton prison teaching initiative (taught entry-level college mathematics in prison; contact: Prof. Knapp) Tutor, School on Wheels (Pasadena, CA) (one-on-one and group tutoring in calculus at a homeless shelter) Teaching assistant, Caltech Astronomy (Ay 21, 102, 121, 127) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2011-present Referee for MNRAS, PRD, PRL, JCAP, ApJ, EPJ and Astropart. Phys. 2013, 2016 Reviewer for NASA-ADAP grants 2016 Reviewer for NASA-ATP grants 2012 Organizer for the IAS astrophysics formal seminar Organizer for the CAS wine and cheese seminar 2010 Committee member for Caltech Astronomy graduate admissions RECENT CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS 02/18 CCAPP Seminar, Ohio State University Talk: Primordial black-holes in the era of Planck and LIGO 12/17 HET Seminar, Brown University Talk: Primordial black-hole dark matter in the gravitational-wave era 11/17 YITP Seminar, Stony Brooks University Talk: Primordial-black-hole dark matter? 04/17 Mitchell Institute Seminar, Texas A&M University Talk: CMB limits on primordial black holes 03/17 Invited speaker, Beyond WIMPs workshop, Stony Brooks University Talk: Macroscopic dark matter 03/17 Invited lecturer, Shanghai Spring School On Cosmology. Lectures: The Cosmic Microwave Background: basic theory 01/17 Invited speaker, The vacuum of the Universe, University of Barcelona. Talk: Cosmic Microwave Background limits on primordial black holes

3 Yacine CV! 3/6 REFERENCES Professor Marc Kamionkowski Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218, USA phone: Professor Bruce Draine Princeton University 4 Ivy Lane Princeton, NJ 08544, USA phone: draine@astro.princeton.edu Professor Christopher Hirata The Ohio State University 191 West Woodruff Avenue Columbus, OH 43210, USA phone: hirata.10@osu.edu Professor Rashid Sunyaev Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1 D Garching, Germany phone: stella@mpa-garching.mpg.de

4 Yacine CV! 4/6 Publication list PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 28. The State-of-Play of Anomalous Microwave Emission Research Dickinson,, Barr, Battistelli, Bell, Bernstein, Casassus, Cleary, Draine, Génova- Santos, Harper, Hensley, Hill-Valler, Hoang, Israel, Jew, Lazarian, Leahy, Leech, López- Caraballo, McDonald, Murphy, Onaka, Paladini, Peel, Perrott, Poidevin, Readhead, Rubiño- Martín, Taylor, Tibbs, Todorović, and Vidal New Astronomy Reviews, accepted (2018) [arxiv: ] 27. Merger rate of primordial-black-hole binaries, Kovetz and Kamionkowski Physical Review D, 96, (2017) 26. Cosmic microwave background limits on accreting primordial black holes and Kamionkowski Physical Review D, 95, (2017) [Editor s Suggestion] 25. Orbital eccentricities in primordial black hole binaries Cholis, Kovetz,, Bird, Kamionkowski, Muñoz and Raccanelli Physical Review D, 94, (2016) 24. On CMB B-mode non-gaussianity Meerburg, Meyers, van Engelen & Physical Review D, 93, (2016) 23. Did LIGO detect dark matter? Bird, Cholis, Muñoz,, Kamionkowski, Kovetz, Raccanelli and Riess Physical Review Letters, 116, (2016) 22. Flaring of tidally compressed dark-matter clumps, Kovetz & Silk Physical Review D 93, (2016) 21. CosmoSpec: Fast and detailed computation of the cosmological recombination radiation from hydrogen and helium Chluba and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456, 3494 (2016) 20. Heating of baryons due to scattering with dark matter during the dark ages Muñoz, Kovetz and Physical Review D 92, (2015)

5 Yacine CV! 5/6 19. Primordial non-gaussianity from the bispectrum of 21-cm fluctuations in the dark ages Muñoz, and Kamionkowski Physical Review D 92, (2015) [Editor s Suggestion] 18. Constraints on dark matter interactions with standard model particles from cosmic microwave background spectral distortions, Chluba and Kamionkowski Physical Review Letters 115, (2015) 17. Perturbative interaction approach to cosmological structure formation Physical Review D 91, (2015) 16. Search for PAHs in the Perseus molecular cloud with the Green Bank Telescope, Pérez, Maddalena and Roshi Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, 315 (2015) 15. New light on 21 cm intensity fluctuations from the dark ages, Meerburg, and Yuan Physical Review D 89, (2014) 14. Rotational spectroscopy of interstellar PAHs Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437, 2728 (2014) 13. Effective conductance method for the primordial recombination spectrum Physical Review D 87, (2013) 12. Spinning dust radiation: a review of the theory Advances in Astronomy, (2013) 11. An efficient implementation of massive neutrinos in non-linear structure formation simulations and Bird Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428, 3375 (2013) 10. CMB photons shedding light on dark matter Giesen, Lesgourgues, Audren and Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 12, 008 (2012) 9. Slowly-rotating stars and black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity and Chen Physical Review D 84, (2011)

6 Yacine CV! 6/6 8. Spitzer characterization of dust in an anomalous emission region: the Perseus cloud Tibbs, Flagey, Paladini, Compiègne, Shenoy, Carey, Noriega-Crespo, Dickinson,, Casassus, Cleary, Davies, Davis, Hirata and Watson Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418, 1889 (2011) 7. Revisiting the double-binary-pulsar probe of nondynamical Chern-Simons gravity Physical Review D 83, (2011) 6. Metals at the surface of last scatter, Hirata and Kamionkowski Physical Review D 83, (2011) 5. HyRec: A fast and highly accurate primordial hydrogen and helium recombination code and Hirata Physical Review D 83, (2011) 4. Spinning dust radiation: the effect of rotation around a non-principal axis Silsbee, and Hirata Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411, 2750 (2011) 3. Radiative transfer effects in primordial hydrogen recombination, Grin and Hirata Physical Review D 82, (2010) 2. Ultrafast effective multi-level atom method for primordial hydrogen recombination and Hirata Physical Review D 82, (2010) 1. A refined model for spinning dust radiation, Hirata and Dickinson Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 395, 1055 (2009) CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS - Studies of anomalous microwave emission with the SKA Dickinson,, Beswick et al., Proceedings of science Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometer Array, arxiv: (2014) - New light on 21 cm fluctuations from the dark ages, Proceedings of the Rencontres de Moriond (Cosmology 2014). My publications are all available on the arxiv website: