I am a NASA Hubble and ITC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation, which is a part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University. I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2019.

I am a computational astrophysicist with diverse interests at the interface between the physics of the interstellar medium and the formation and evolution of galaxies. Together with my collaborators, I design, run, and analyze supercomputer simulations that span scales from individual star-forming regions to cosmological volumes. My work focuses on the following topics:

  • cosmological galaxy formation simulations
  • formation of galactic disks
  • formation and evolution of the first galaxies
  • the baryon cycle in and out of galaxies
  • the origin of star formation scaling relations
  • interstellar turbulence
  • cosmic rays
  • numerical methods

I can be reached at 
vadim.semenov@cfa.harvard.edu