Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD in Astronomy — University of Sussex
2022 – expected Summer 2026
Thesis: Galaxy clustering for upcoming galaxy surveys
Supervisor: Prof. Jon Loveday

MSc in Astronomy — University of Sussex
2020 – 2021
Project: The galaxy luminosity function for 4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey target catalogues
Supervisor: Prof. Jon Loveday

BSc in Physics — Tehran Polytechnic
2015 – 2020

Academic Positions and Research Experience

Doctoral Researcher — University of Sussex
2022 – Present

Doctoral Tutor (Physics and Astronomy) — University of Sussex
2023 – Present

Visiting Researcher — LASTRO, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Oct 2025 – Dec 2025

Research Interests

Large-scale structure of the Universe
Observational cosmology
Galaxy and quasar clustering
Sky surveys and survey design
Target selection and catalogue validation
Structure finding in galaxy surveys

Collaborations and Surveys

4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST)
Permanent Science Team Member (since July 2025)
Commissioning and Science Verification
IWG6 – Data Curation and Data Release Infrastructure
Project Culture Working Group
Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS) — 4MOST Consortium Survey
Wide Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES) — 4MOST Consortium Survey
Euclid Consortium
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC)
LSST-UK Junior Associate

Technical Skills

Programming and Computing

Python
High-performance computing
Git
Machine learning
LaTeX

Scientific Software and Packages

TreeCorr
PyCorr / Corrfunc
Astropy
Healpy
Mangle

Publications

4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS): Clustering properties of CRS BG and LRG target catalogues

B. Bandi et al., "4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS): Clustering properties of CRS BG and LRG target catalogues", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2026;, stag407, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag407

Wide Area VISTA Extra-galactic Survey (WAVES): Clustering properties of WAVES–wide target catalogues

4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS): Target Selection and Clustering properties of CRS QSO target catalogues

Wide Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES): Selection of targets for the Wide survey using decision-tree classification

G. Kaur, M. Bilicki, S. Bellstedt, E. Tempel, W. Hellwing, I. Baldry, B. Bandi, S. Barsanti, S. Driver, N. Guerra-Varas, B. Holwerda, C. Lagos, J. Loveday, A. Robotham, "Wide Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES): Selection of targets for the Wide survey using decision-tree classification." arXiv:2510.11132, 2025.

The 4MOST-Cosmology Redshift Survey: Target Selection of Bright Galaxies and Luminous Red Galaxies

A. Verdier, A. Rocher, B. Bandi, et al. "The 4MOST-Cosmology Redshift Survey: Target Selection of Bright Galaxies and Luminous Red Galaxies." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025.

Wide Area VISTA Extra-galactic Survey (WAVES): unsupervised star-galaxy separation on the WAVES-Wide photometric input catalogue using UMAP and HDBSCAN

T. L. Cook, B. Bandi, et al., "Wide Area VISTA Extra-galactic Survey (WAVES): unsupervised star-galaxy separation on the WAVES-Wide photometric input catalogue using UMAP and HDBSCAN." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024.

Teaching

Year 2 Physics Lab

Year 1 Physics Lab

Physics Foundation Year Lab

Outreach, Service, and Leadership

Science Communication co-lead, 4MOST (2025 – Present)
Universities Liaison Officer, Lewes Astronomical Society (2024 – Present)
Social Media Administrator, Euclid-UK (2023 – Present)
Head of Local Organising Committee, The World at Night Astrophotography Workshop (2017)
President, Physics & Astronomy Society, Tehran Polytechnic (2015 – 2020)

References

Available upon request.

Behnood Bandi