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Daniel Grin Curriculum Vitae Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Chicago, 933 East 56th Street, Chicago, IL 60673 Phone (626) 224-4790 E-mail: dgrin@kicp.uchicago.edu, BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Citizenship: United States. RESEARCH INTERESTS Cosmic microwave background radiation, primordial non-Gaussianity, isocurvature perturbations, CMB spectral distortions, stellar dynamics, gravitational waves, 21-cm cosmology, hydrogen recombination, dark matter halo merger histories and structure, axionic dark matter, non-standard cosmological thermal histories, astrophysical constraints to the properties of dark matter and dark energy, effective field theory approaches to gravity, galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing, baryogenesis, sterile neutrinos, Lyman-limit absorption systems. EDUCATION Sept. 2004-June 2010: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Ph. D. in Astrophysics. Thesis: Astrophysical windows on new degrees of freedom . Advisor: Prof. Marc Kamionkowski. Major collaborator: Prof. Chris Hirata. Sept. 2003-June 2004: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD , M. Studies in Philosophy, with focus in Philoso- phy of Science/Physics. Examination Topics: Philosophy of Physics, The Rise of Modern Logic. Supervision Topics: Philosophy of Physics (Drs. Harvey Brown and Simon Saunders), The Rise of Modern Logic (Dr. Ian Rumfitt), Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’ (Dr. Jan Westerhoff). Sept. 1999-June 2003: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, A.B. in Physics, magna cum laude. Thesis: Galaxy bias in the halo model. ˇ Advisor: Prof. Uros Seljak. EMPLOYMENT Postdoctoral Member (2010-2013), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. National Science Foundatio