Curriculum vitae

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Kavli Postdoctoral Associate

PI: Prof. Lina Necib

University of Cambridge (Gonville & Caius College)

Ph.D. Astronomy & Astrophysics

Thesis: Chemodynamics of the Galactic Halo
Supervisors: Prof. Vasily Belokurov & Prof. N. Wyn Evans

University of Edinburgh

MSc (with Merit) Theoretical Physics

Thesis: Probing the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with Cosmological Density and Velocity Fields
Supervisor: Prof. John Peacock

Princeton University

A.B. (cum laude) Astrophysics with Applied Mathematics

Thesis: Smoothing the Universe by Cosmological Contraction in Various Scalar Field Potentials
Supervisor: Prof. Paul Steinhardt

0000-0001-5996-4072

9 (NASA ADS)

300+ (NASA ADS)

8 (first author); 9 (other author)

The erasure of Galactic bar resonances by dark matter subhaloes

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Adam M. Dillamore, Vasily Belokurov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04490

Blind source separation of the stellar halo

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Vasily Belokurov, Andrey Kravtsov, Stephanie Monty, GyuChul Myeong, N. Wyn Evans, Sarah G. Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21365

Hints of a disrupted binary dwarf galaxy in the Sagittarius stream

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Stephanie Monty, Vasily Belokurov, Adam M. Dillamore
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae559

Disrupted dwarf binary merger as the possible origin of NGC 2419 and Sagittarius stream substructure

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Vasily Belokurov, Stephanie Monty, N. Wyn Evans
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slae001

Stellar halo striations from assumptions of axisymmetry

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Adam M. Dillamore, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2138

Accelerated phase mixing in the stellar halo due to a rotating bar

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Adam M. Dillamore, Eugene Vasiliev, Vasily Belokurov
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slad017

The phase space chevrons of a GSE-like merger as a dark matter subhalo detector

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Eugene Vasiliev, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans, Adam M. Dillamore
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3581

Fuzzy dark matter soliton cores around supermassive black holes

MNRAS

Elliot Y. Davies, Philip Mocz
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa202

Baryon-Accelerated Core Collapse in SIDM Halos and its Imprint on Galactic Disks

Zeineb Mezghanni, Elliot Y. Davies, Adriana Dropulic, Gonzalo Herrera, Abdelaziz Hussein, Lina Necib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05600

Galactic Amnesia: The Information Washout of the Milky Way Merger History

Lina Necib, Dylan Folsom, Elliot Y. Davies, Nathaniel Starkman, Andreas Thoyas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04138

Formation and Redshift Evolution of Dark Matter Spikes

Gonzalo Herrera, Abdelaziz Hussein, Lina Necib, Elliot Y. Davies, Xuejian Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01023

STRRINGS: STReams in Residual Images of Nearby GalaxieS

Elisabeth Sola, David Chemaly, Vasily Belokurov, Oliver Müller, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Elliot Y. Davies , ...
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1647

The realm of Aurora. Density distribution of metal-poor giants in the heart of the Galaxy

Evgeny P. Kurbatov, Vasily Belokurov, Sergey Koposov, Andrey Kravtsov, Elliot Y. Davies , ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22250

The ratio of [Eu/Si] differentiates accreted/in-situ Milky Way stars across metallicities, as indicated by both field stars and globular clusters

Stephanie Monty, Vasily Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders, Therese T. Hansen, Erika M. Holmbeck, Charli M. Sakari, Madline McKenzie, GyuChul Myeong, Elliot Y. Davies, ...
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1895

Stellar halo substructure generated by bar resonances

MNRAS

Adam M. Dillamore, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans, Elliot Y. Davies
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2136

Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger

MNRAS

Vasily Belokurov, Eugene Vasiliev, Alis J. Deason, Sergey E. Koposov, Adam M. Dillamore, Elliot Y. Davies, ...
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3436

Robustness of Slow Contraction to Cosmic Initial Conditions

JCAP

Anna Ijjas, William G. Cook, Frans Pretorius, Paul J. Steinhardt, Elliot Y. Davies
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/08/030

Part II Stellar Dynamics and the Structure of Galaxies

Supervisor

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Part II Introduction to Cosmology

Supervisor

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Daria Zaremba

PhD

MIT, Kavli Institute

Mark Gaskins

Undergraduate (MSRP)

North Carolina A&T State University

Zeineb Mezghanni

PhD

MIT, Kavli Institute

Jailee Young

Undergraduate (USRP)

MIT Kavli Institute

Yuxuan Zeng

Part III (Masters)

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Poster entitled The erasure of Galactic bar resonances by dark matter subhaloes

New Frontier in Cosmology (A Coruna, Spain)

Talk entitled The erasure of Galactic bar resonances by dark matter subhaloes

57th DDA Meeting (Chicago, IL)

Talk entitled Detecting dark matter substructure with Milky Way’s dynamics tool box

CIERA Theory group at Northwestern (Evanston, IL)

Talk entitled Detecting dark matter substructure with Milky Way’s dynamics tool box

CPC Seminar at Fermilab (Batavia, IL)

Talk entitled Detecting dark matter substructure with Milky Way’s dynamics tool box

LPPC Harvard Weekly Seminar (Cambridge, MA)

Dissertation talk entitled Blind source separation of the stellar halo

245th AAS Meeting (National Harbor, MD)

Winter school attendee

Galaxy modelling and Galactic Centre workshop (University of Surrey, Guildford)

Contributed talk entitled Hints of a disrupted binary dwarf galaxy in the Sagittarius stream

Small Galaxies, Large Questions (Durham, UK)

Contributed talk entitled Hints of a disrupted binary dwarf galaxy in the Sagittarius stream

The Milky Way Assembly Tale (Bologna, Italy)

Contributed talk entitled Capturing subhaloes with Galactic halo substructure

Revealed by Gaia: the central halo of the Milky Way (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Poster entitled Accelerated phase mixing in the stellar halo due to a rotating bar

European Astronomical Society (Krakow, Poland)

Poster entitled Accelerated phase mixing in the stellar halo due to a rotating bar

Galactic Bars: Driving and Decoding Galaxy Evolution (Granada, Spain)

Talk entitled The wrinkles and folds of the Milky Way's most recent major merger

MCR Research Day 2023 (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge)

Talk entitled The Phase Mixed Debris of a Massive Merger as a Dark Matter Subhalo Detector

Wednesday Seminar (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Poster entitled How Supermassive Black Holes impact the Fuzzy Dark Matter Mass Mystery

235th AAS Meeting (Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu, HI)

Interviewer & Ambassador

Princeton University Undergraduate Admissions

Conduct interviews with prospective Princeton University students and produce reports on each interviewee to aid in the undergraduate admissions process. Total interviews conducted: 16

Journal Club Coordinator

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Organiser for the bi-weekly undergraduate journal club for final year undergraduates and masters students.

Director & Volunteer

Princeton Envision (Entrepreneurship Club)

Assisted in organising, promoting and managing Envision Conference: an annual conference held over 3 days in December that brings 200 competitively selected students from universities across the world together with top researchers, entrepreneurs, and professionals to attend lectures and workshops discussing the disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and space travel.

Library Assistant

Princeton University Architecture Library

Duties included but were not limited to: circulation services, reserves, shelving, shelf reading, with other duties as directed by the librarian.

Peer Reviewer

Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal

Assisted in the peer reviewing process for the Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal (PURJ), Princeton’s first peer-reviewed academic journal, highlighting top-quality research performed by Princeton undergraduates across all academic pursuits, including the natural sciences, humanities, engineering, social sciences, and arts.

STFC PhD Studentship

Cambridge, UK
Full funding for 3.5 years to complete PhD at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Full-ride Academic Scholarship

Princeton University, USA
Various financial aid packages covering all tuition fees and living costs to attend Princeton University in the Unites States for four years.

Sutton Trust USA Programme

London, UK
One of 150 selected from 1600 high achieving low-income, first-generation students to receive admissions guidance for applying to the top universities in the US.

UNIQ Summer School

University of Oxford, UK
One of 36 Sixth Form students selected to attended the Oxford University Physics UNIQ Summer School for students from underrepresented backgrounds.