Pascal Jan Hitz
Pascal Jan Hitz
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-PHYS
ETH Zürich
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I am a Ph.D. student in Prof. Alexandre Refregier's Cosmology Group at ETH Zurich. Furthermore, I am a member of the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX), which is a radio interferometer array project under construction in South Africa, and the SKA Switzerland Consortium (SKACH), which is leading the country's contributions to the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO).
My research interests are in the field of cosmology in the radio regime of the electromagnetic spectrum. I am currently working on realistic simulations of the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in our universe after the end of reionization. The HI simulations are based on underlying dark matter halo simulations for which we use PINOCCHIO. The HI simulations are used to produce 21-cm emission maps which can be used as input to various radio telescopes performing 21-cm intensity mapping. For statistical comparisons of our simulations with theoretical predictions, I use PyCosmo.
Employment:
- Ph.D. student, Cosmology Research Group, Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, Dec. 2021 - present
Education:
- 2021: Master of Science in Physics, ETH Zurich
- 2019: Bachelor of Science in Physics, ETH Zurich
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Teaching:
- Astrophysics I, Fall Semester 2023, exercise classes
- Physics for Mechanical Engineering, Spring Semester 2023, exercise classes
- Physics I for Mechanical Engineering, Fall Semester 2022, exercise classes
- Physics II for Physicists, Spring Semester 2022, exercise classes
- Physics I for Mechanical Engineering, Fall Semester 2020, exercise classes
Co-advising of students:
- Astroweek on Diavolezza (CH): Supervising a group of students performing astrophysical measurements with telescopes, organised by ETH Zurich, Fall Semester 2023
- Constança Tropa, Testing of the HIRAX simulation and analysis pipeline, Semester Project, Spring Semester 2023