Teaching Affiliations
If you are interested in pursuing a MSc degree, please apply to the Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) masters program. If you are interested in working with me as a PhD student, please send me an email at [email protected]. Perimeter Institute is committed to diversity within its community and I welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Research Interests
My research interests are primarily in the area of cosmology, including large-scale structure, dark matter, dark energy, and gravitational lensing.
Positions Held
- Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois Professor, 2011-2017
- Senior research associate, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, 2005-2011
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2005
Recent Publications
- Adolff, J., Hotinli, S., & Dalal, N. (2026). Probing Dark Energy Microphysics with kSZ Tomography. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 9. doi:10.33232/001c.162336
- Pan, J., Huterer, D., Avestruz, C., Cheung, D. H. T., Trott, E., Dalal, N., & Jeong, D. (2026). Determining the Hubble constant through cross-correlation of galaxies and gravitational waves. Physical Review D, 113(10), 103532. doi:10.1103/2d96-fg7f
- Adolff, J., Hotinli, S., & Dalal, N. (2026). Probing Dark Energy Microphysics with kSZ Tomography. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.05653
- Dalal, N., & Percival, W. J. (2026). Estimating non-gaussian bias using counts of tracers. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2026(04), 037. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2026/04/037
- Kaiser, R., Guerin, W., Vakili, F., Berger, J. -P., Nomerotski, A., Kulkov, S., . . . Murray, N. W. (2026). ESO White Paper on Intensity Interferometry: Cosmology, Fundamental Physics, Quantum Optics. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2602.12717
- Pan, J., Huterer, D., Avestruz, C., Cheung, D. H. T., Trott, E., Dalal, N., & Jeong, D. (2025). Determining the Hubble Constant through Cross-Correlation of Galaxies and Gravitational Waves. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.19931
- May, S., Dalal, N., & Kravtsov, A. (2025). Updated bounds on ultra-light dark matter from the tiniest galaxies. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.02781
- Dalal, N., & Percival, W. J. (2025). Estimating non-gaussian bias using counts of tracers. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21024v1
- Dalal, N., Galanis, M., Gammie, C., Gralla, S. E., & Murray, N. (2024). Probing H0 and resolving AGN disks with ultrafast photon counters. Physical Review D, 109(12), 123029. doi:10.1103/physrevd.109.123029
Seminars
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/29, PIRSA:25040024
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/28, PIRSA:25040023
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/24, PIRSA:25040022
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/22, PIRSA:25040021
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/17, PIRSA:25040020
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/15, PIRSA:25040019
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/14, PIRSA:25040018
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/10, PIRSA:25040017
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/08, PIRSA:25040016
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/07, PIRSA:25040015
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/03, PIRSA:25040014
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/04/01, PIRSA:25040013
- Lecture - Cosmology, PHYS 621, Cosmology (Elective), PHYS 621, March 31 - May 2, 2025, 2025/03/31, PIRSA:25030001
- AGN HBT OMG, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, United States, 2025/03/03
- AGN HBT OMG, University of Pennsylvania, Physics, Philadelphia, United States, 2025/02/05
- AGN HBT OMG, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, United States, 2025/01/21
- AGN HBT OMG, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States, 2024/10/03
- AGN HBT OMG, McGill University, Physics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2024/09/24
- AGN HBT OMG, University of California, Santa Barbara, Physics, Santa Barbara, California, United States, 2024/09/18
- AGN HBT OMG, Jet Propulsion Lab, La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States, 2024/09/16
- AGN HBT OMG, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California, United States, 2024/05/10
- AGN HBT OMG, Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/277/, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2024/04/20
- AGN HBT OMG, TAP Lectureship, University of Arizona, Astronomy, Tucson, AZ, United States, 2024/02/19
- AGN HBT OMG, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2023/09/27
- AGN HBT OMG, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics, Urbana, Illinois, United States, 2023/09/13
