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Education

University of California, Santa Cruz- Astronomy & Astrophysics PhD program (2010 -)
University of California, Santa Cruz- Astronomy & Astrophysics M.S. (2012)
California Institute of Technology- B.S. with honors in Physics (2010)

Previous Positions

Teaching Assistant, Earth and Planetary Sciences 119, Introduction to Scientific Computing (Winter 2011)
Graduate Student Researcher, with Mark Krumholz, UCSC (2010-)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, with B. Thomas Soifer and Jason Melbourne, Caltech (2009)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, with Christopher M. Hirata, Caltech (2008)
Summer Researcher, with Oliver Gutsche, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2006,2007)

Awards

Whitford Prize (UCSC, 2012)
National Science Foundation GRFP Fellowship (2011)
UC Regents Fellowhsip (UCSC, 2010)
NEXSI Fellowship (UCSC, 2010)

Publications

Balance among gravitational instability, star formation, and accretion determines the structure and evolution of disk galaxies. Forbes,J.C., Krumholz,M.R.,Burkert,A., & Dekel,A. 2013, MNRAS submitted

Evolving Gravitationally Unstable Disks Over Cosmic Time: Implications for Thick Disk Formation. Forbes,J., Krumholz,M.R.,&Burkert,A. 2012, ApJ,754,48

Lyman-alpha transfer in primordial hydrogen recombination. Hirata,C.M., Forbes,J. 2009, Phys. Rev. D,80,023001

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