Ioana Alexandr Zelko
Treu Research Group, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Ioana
I received my PhD from Harvard University with a thesis on interstellar dust and cosmology. I spent a year as an astrophysics postdoctoral researcher at the University of California – Los Angeles, studying constraints on dark matter using gravitational strong lensing. My recent projects include creating the first 3D temperature map of the temperature of dust in the ISM, as well as putting constraints on sterile neutrino models using strong lensing. Starting this fall I will be a CITA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. Outside of research and outreach, I am a fan of tennis, hiking and winter sports.
Honors
2021 - CITA Postdoctoral Fellowship
2014 - MIT Malcolm Cotton Brown Award
2010 - Bronze Medal at the International Physics Olympiad
2009 - Gold Medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Atrophysics
Education
Postdoc
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto, 09/2022 - 08/2025
Treu Group, University of California, Los Angeles, 09/2021 - 08/2022
Ph.D.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University, 11/2021
Master's
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University, 06/2016
Bachelor's
Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 06/2014
