Julian B. Muñoz

Assistant Professor in the Department Astronomy at the UT Austin

On Monday April 8, Austin will be in the path of totality for the next solar eclipse. Prof Julian B. Muñoz from the Department of Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin will narrate the event as we witness what won't occur again for another 20 years.

Julian is a newly minted Assistant Professor in the Department Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. Julian grew up in Madrid, Spain, and he finished his Bachelor’s degree in Physics in 2013 at the Complutense University of Madrid. He moved to the US for graduate school, defending his PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 2017. After that he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Physics Department until 2020, and a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics until 2022. 

Julian works on understanding the elusive dark matter and its connection to the formation of the first galaxies. He uses techniques ranging from pen-and-paper calculations to computer simulations to confront his theories to cosmological observations. In particular, Julian is an expert in the epochs of cosmic dawn and reionization, when the first stars in the universe formed, which he uses to extract new insights on the nature of the dark sector of our universe.