Alessandro Sonnenfeld
Associate Professor
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolAlessandro Sonnenfeld is an Associate Professor and astrophysicist with 11 years of research experience specializing in galaxy evolution, stellar and dark matter content of massive ellipticals. He applies forward modeling and Bayesian statistics to extract robust signals from noisy astronomical data, a skillset honed during his PhD at UC Santa Barbara and postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA, Kavli IPMU and Leiden. Author of 61 papers (21 as first author) and recipient of prestigious postdoctoral awards including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and the NOVA Fellowship, he now leads research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Colleagues value his blend of rigorous statistical methods with astrophysical insight, and his work often bridges observational constraints with theoretical modeling in subtle, predictive ways.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at UCSB Department of Physics
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Github Skills (5)
bayesian8
inference4
frontend2
lenses1
catalog1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
astrosonnen/pyplz
Oct 2018 - Dec 2025
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
astrosonnen/bayesian_hierarchical_wl
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
This code can be used to carry out galaxy-galaxy lensing studies with the Bayesian hierarchical inference formalism of Sonnenfeld & Leauthaud (2018).
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 years 6 months
bayesianinference
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