Dr Harry Desmond
Biography
I joined the ICG as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2022, supported by a Royal Society URF. Before that I was a McWilliams Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, and before that a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. I obtained my PhD from Stanford University in 2017.
Research interests
I am interested primarily in developing new tests of the standard model of cosmology (gravity and/or dark sector physics) using astrophysical objects, mainly galaxies and stars. My work ranges from pure theory, through N-body and hydrodynamical simulations to statistical data analysis. I am also interested in galaxy formation and how best to characterise the relation between galaxies and their host dark matter halos.
Research outputs
2025
Desmond, H., Nájera, J. A.
1 Aug 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541, 2, p. 671–686
Research output: Article
Vărăşteanu, A. A., Jarvis, M. J., Ponomareva, A. A., Desmond, H., Heywood, I., Yasin, T., Maddox, N., Glowacki, M., Maksymowicz-Maciata, M., Piña, P. E. M., Pan, H.
23 Jul 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541, 3, p. 2366–2392
Research output: Article
Sui, C., Bartlett, D. J., Pandey, S., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P. G., Wandelt, B.
28 May 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 698, May, 19p., A1
Research output: Article
Banik, I., Desmond, H., Samaras, N.
1 May 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539, 2, p. 1553-1561, 9p.
Research output: Article
Yasin, T., Desmond, H.
1 May 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539, 3, p. 2110-2120, 11p.
Research output: Article
2024
Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Devriendt, J., Slyz, A.
1 Nov 2024, In: MNRAS. 534, 4, 13p.
Research output: Article
Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H.
1 Nov 2024, In: Research Notes of the AAS. 8, 11, 3p., 281
Research output: Article
Patel, D., Desmond, H.
3 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 2, p. 1553–1560, 8p.
Research output: Article
Landim, R. G., Desmond, H., Koyama, K., Penny, S.
1 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 1, p. 349–360
Research output: Article
Kronberger, G., Olivetti de Franca, F., Desmond, H., Bartlett, D. J., Kammerer, L.
7 Sep 2024,
Research output: Conference contribution