Holz Group

Daniel Holz

I received my undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University, under the mentorship of John Wheeler. My graduate work was at the University of Chicago with Robert Wald, receiving a PhD in Physics. I subsequently spent a year as a postdoc at the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Potsdam, Germany, as a member of the astrophysical relativity division. From 2000-2002 I was a postdoc at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, after which I returned to Chicago as a Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. In 2004 I moved to the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Richard Feynman Fellow in the theoretical astrophysics (T-6) and theoretical particle physics (T-8) groups, and became a Staff Member in 2007. I joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2011.

Email: blackhole [at] uchicago [dot] edu

Office: Michelson Center for Physics (MCP), Chicago, IL 60637

Current Group Members

Colm Talbot

Schmidt Fellow at UChicago

(2023–)

Tom Callister

KICP Fellow at UChicago

(2022–)

Amanda Farah

UChicago graduate student

(2019–)

Alexandra Hanselman

UChicago graduate student

(2020–)

Sam Dyson

UChicago graduate student

(2021–)

Previous Group Members

Mike Zevin

Staff astrophysicist at the Adler Planetarium

(2020–2023): Hubble Fellow at UChicago.

Jose María Ezquiaga

Assistant Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute

(2019–2022): Einstein Fellow at UChicago.

Maya Fishbach

Asssistant Professor at CITA

(2015–2020): UChicago graduate student. Einstein Fellow at Northwestern.

Reed Essick

Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto

(2017–2020): KICP Fellow at UChicago.

Phil Landry

CITA Fellow

(2017–2019): NSERC Fellow at UChicago.

Zoheyr Doctor

Board of Visitors Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern

(2014–2019): UChicago graduate student.

Ben Farr

Associate Professor at the University of Oregon

(2014–2017): McCormick Postdoctoral Fellow.

Hsin-Yu Chen

Assistant Professor at UT Austin

(2010–2017): UChicago graduate student. Einstein Fellow at MIT.

There’s a poem in the great sleeping giant

of Lake Michigan, defiantly raising
its big blue head to Milwaukee and Chicago—
a poem begun long ago, blazed into frozen soil,
strutting upward and aglow.

Amanda Gorman, In This Place (An American Lyric)