Biography

Aaron Yung is currently a Giacconi Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Aaron's research focuses on extragalactic science related to exploring the primordial universe with the James Webb Space Telescope and the Roman Space Telescope. Prior to joining STScI, Aaron was previously a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) between 2020-2023 and a Flatiron Guest Researcher at Flatiron Institute's Center of Computational Astrophysics (CCA) between 2016-2020. Aaron obtained his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from the University of San Francisco in 2014. After that, he pursued graduate study under the direction of Rachel Somerville in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. Aaron's dissertation research has been published in a series of work entitled “Semi-analytic forecasts for the Universe”, in which he studied the co-evolution of galaxy formation and cosmic reionization using semi-analytic methods.