Stellar streams from Pearson et al. 2024 Welcome
Sarah Pearson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, where she runs the Extragalactic Streams Group, focused on galactic dynamics and dark matter. Pearson's two passions are astrophysics research and communicating astrophysics. She has extensive experience giving lectures to both scientific peers and to non-scientific audiences. Follow these links for more details on her Publications (ADS), CV (pdf), and Research.News:
(2025) I'm excited to announce the release of our new paper: Nibauer & Pearson 2025, which makes it possible to test dark matter theories with extragalactic streams using our new X-Stream code.
(2025) Julie Kiel Holm and Daniel A. Bobruk will start as PhD students in the Extragalactic Streams group, and Adriana Dropulic and Maya Silverman are joining our group as postdocs in 2025!
(2024) I've been accepted as a new member of the Danish Young Academy!
(2024) I received an ERC starting grant! I'm very excited to expand the Extragalactic Streams Group at U. Copenhagen in the years to come!