Please note, this is only an abridged CV. For my full CV, please email me at desika dot narayanan at ufl dot edu

Current Position Associate (Tenured) Professor of Astronomy, University of Florida

Affiliate Positions:

• Graduate Faculty Status, Physics Department, University of Florida

• Associate at Cosmic Dawn Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

• Affiliate Faculty University of Florida Informatics Institute

Education
2007 Ph.D Astrophysics University of Arizona
2003 B.S. Physics, High Honors University of Florida
2003 B.S. Astronomy, Highest Honors University of Florida

Prior Appointments
Assistant Professor [Astronomy] University of Florida 2017-2021
Assistant Professor [Physics] Haverford College 2014-2017
Bart J Bok Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Arizona 2010-2013
CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship Harvard University 2007-2010
NSF Graduate Fellow (PhD Thesis) University of Arizona 2004-2007
Research Assistant (PhD Thesis) Dr. Christopher Walker, University of Arizona 2003-2004
Research Assistant (Undergraduate) Dr. Fred Hamann, University of Florida 1999-2003

Awards and Lectureships
Niels Bohr Lectureship Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen 2024
Keynote Speaker, Annual Danish Astronomy Meeting Fredericia, Denmark 2022

Publications Summary
Link to all publications
182 total refereed papers, 28 first author, 13K citations, H-index: 60, first author H-index: 24

Service to the Profession

• Reviewer: AAS journals, MNRAS, A&A, Nature, Nature Astronomy

• International Astronomy Panels: Royal Society University Fellowship (2025), ESF Referee (2025), Principal PhD opponent, University of Oslo (2024), Swiss National Foundation (2022, 2024), National Centre for Polish Nuclear Research (2024), Dawn IRES selection committee (2018-2021), Netherlands Physical Sciences Free Competition (2021)

• Domestic Funding and Telescope Panelist (years not given to preserve anonymity): JWST TAC (2x), HST (1x), NSF AAG (3x), NSF AAPF (1x), NSF REU (1x), NASA ADAP (1x), NASA IDEAS (2x), NASA MIDEX (1x), NASA ATP (4x, chair once), NASA TCAN (1x, chair), NASA Launchpad (1x), NOAO TAC (4x), LMT External, JCMT External

• Conference Scientific Organizing Committees:

  • 2025 PRIMA and the Future of FIR Science, Pasadena

  • 2024 The Physics and Impact of Astrophysical Dust: form Star Formation through Cosmology, Aspen [lead organizer]

  • 2024 Cosmic Dawn at High Latitudes, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2024 The End of Star Formation at the End of the World, Puerto Varas, Chile

  • 2024 Observing and Simulating Galaxy Evolution in the era of JWST, Ascona, CH

  • 2024 Gas and Dust across Cosmic Time, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2024 ALMABO #2: Galaxy Evolution in the Era of ALMA, Bologna, Italy

  • 2020 Galaxy Quenching and Transformation throughout Cosmic Time, Aspen

  • 2019 Extreme Starbursts, Leiden, NL

  • 2016 Dusty Galaxies at High-Redshift, Aspen

  • 2016 Hidden Monsters, Dartmouth

  • 2014 The Formation and Growth of Galaxies, Obergurgl, Austria

  • 2014 The Role of Hydrogen in the Evolution of Galaxies, Borneo, Malaysia