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Curriculum Vitae

Uendert Andrade, Leinweber Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

I am a cosmologist working on precision tests of the standard cosmological model using large-scale structure surveys, with a focus on baryon acoustic oscillations, growth–geometry consistency tests, and survey validation. I am currently a Leinweber Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan and a leading contributor to DESI BAO analyses.

Selected leadership

  • DESI DR2 BAO co-coordination

    Co-coordinated the DESI DR2 BAO Key Project within the Galaxy & Quasar Clustering Working Group.

  • BAO topical-group leadership

    Led galaxy-clustering BAO analyses across tracers, including reconstruction, distance-scale measurements, and systematic validation.

  • Michigan cosmology activities

    Organized cosmology seminars, group meetings, and Michigan Cosmology Summer School activities.

  • Service and mentoring

    Refereeing for cosmology journals and mentoring graduate and undergraduate research projects.

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Research interests

  • Observational cosmology and large-scale structure
  • Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and redshift-space distortions (RSD)
  • Tests of General Relativity and dark energy
  • Growth–geometry consistency tests
  • Galaxy clustering, full-shape modeling, and survey systematics
  • Spectroscopic & photometric surveys: DESI, DES, Euclid, Rubin

Professional appointments

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Leinweber Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics
September 2022 – Present

Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Postdoctoral Fellow (to complete the PhD academic year)
March 2022 – August 2022

Education

Ph.D. in Astronomy
Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March 2018 – March 2022
Advisor: Jailsom Alcaniz
Thesis: Probing the fundamental hypotheses of the standard cosmology

M.Sc. in Astronomy
Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March 2016 – February 2018
Advisor: Jailsom Alcaniz
Thesis: Testing the cosmological isotropy

B.Sc. in Physics
Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Seropédica, Brazil
February 2011 – January 2016
Senior project: Canonical quantization with constraints

Publications

See the dedicated Publications page for a complete and up-to-date list.

Leadership & service roles

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Collaboration-internal reviewer
July 2025

DR2 BAO Co-Coordinator, GQC Working Group
August 2024 – October 2025
The Galaxy & Quasar Clustering (GQC) Working Group leads one of the key DESI science programs, delivering precision measurements of cosmic distances and structure growth.
As co-coordinator of the DR2 BAO Key Project, I oversaw coordination between GQC and other DESI working groups (e.g. Cosmological Parameter Estimation) to ensure delivery of the DR2 cosmological results.

Lead, DR2 BAO Topical Group
August 2024 – October 2025
Led galaxy clustering BAO analyses within the GQC Working Group, including reconstruction, distance-scale measurements, and systematic validation across all DESI GQC tracers.

Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan

Organizer, UM Cosmology Group Meeting and Cosmo Seminar
Fall 2025
Scheduled invited speakers, coordinated logistics, and maintained the seminar schedule.

Organizer, Michigan Cosmology Summer School 2025, Ann Arbor, MI
June 2025
Co-organized the 3rd Michigan Cosmology Summer School, focused on bridging cosmological data and theory.

Organizer, UM Cosmology Group Meeting
Winter 2024
Organized weekly group meetings and led discussions.

Organizer, Michigan Cosmology Summer School 2023, Ann Arbor, MI
June 2023
Co-organized the 2nd Michigan Cosmology Summer School, a hybrid event focused on the interface between data and theory.

Journal refereeing

  • European Physical Journal C (EPJC) — Referee (2026–present)
  • Journal of High Energy Astrophysics (JHEAp) — Referee (2025–present)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) — Referee (2020–present)

Honors and awards

  • Leinweber Postdoctoral Fellowship

Teaching and mentoring

  • Mentoring of graduate-student research projects within DESI and DES
  • Supervision and mentoring of undergraduate research projects

Skills

Programming languages
Python, C/C++, some Fortran

Scientific software & computing
Git / GitHub, LaTeX, Jupyter notebooks, VS Code, HPC environments, SLURM

General tools
Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Office

Languages
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (conversational)

References

References are available upon request

Dragan Huterer
Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
📧 hutrerer@umich.edu

Daniel Eisenstein
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
📧 deisenstein@cfa.harvard.edu

Seshadri Nadathur
Associate Professor
University of Portsmouth
📧 seshadri.nadathur@port.ac.uk