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Dr Harry Desmond

Senior Research Fellow

Harry.Desmond@port.ac.uk

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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

Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Banik, I.

1 Oct 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543, 2, p. 1556-1573, 18p.

Research output: Article

Kammerer, L., Bartlett, D. J., Kronberger, G., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P. G.

26 Sep 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701, 13p., A284

Research output: Article

Di Valentino, E., Said, J. L., Riess, A., Pollo, A., Poulin, V., Gómez-Valent, A., Weltman, A., Palmese, A., Huang, C. D., Bruck, C. v. d., Saraf, C. S., Kuo, C. Y., Uhlemann, C., Grandón, D., Paz, D., Eckert, D., Teixeira, E. M., Saridakis, E. N., Colgáin, E., Beutler, F., Niedermann, F., Bajardi, F., Barenboim, G., Gubitosi, G., Musella, I., Banik, I., Szapudi, I., Singal, J., Cases, J. H., Chluba, J., Torrado, J., Mifsud, J., Jedamzik, K., Said, K., Dialektopoulos, K., Herold, L., Vincenzi, M., Pace, F., Desmond, H., Sakstein, J., Naidoo, K., Pogosian, L., Gsponer, R., Joudaki, S., Hellwing, W., Bose, B., Mueller, E. M., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Grimm, N., Baker, T.

1 Sep 2025, In: Physics of the Dark Universe. 49, 263p., 101965

Research output: Article

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