Dr Harry Desmond
Biography
I joined the ICG as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2022, supported by a Royal Society URF. Before that I was a McWilliams Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, and before that a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. I obtained my PhD from Stanford University in 2017.
Research interests
I am interested primarily in developing new tests of the standard model of cosmology (gravity and/or dark sector physics) using astrophysical objects, mainly galaxies and stars. My work ranges from pure theory, through N-body and hydrodynamical simulations to statistical data analysis. I am also interested in galaxy formation and how best to characterise the relation between galaxies and their host dark matter halos.
Research outputs
2026
Constantin, A., Ferreira, P., Desmond, H., Bartlett, D.
9 Apr 2026, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 384, 2317, 16p., 20250091
Research output: Article
Martin, A., Yasin, T., Bartlett, D., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P.
9 Apr 2026, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 384, 2317, 18p., 20250090
Research output: Article
Desmond, H.
9 Apr 2026, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 384, 2317, 15p., 20240584
Research output: Article
Gallagher, C., Yasin, T., Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Jarvis, M. J.
1 Mar 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 3, 17p., stag108
Research output: Article
Von Hausegger, S., Secrest, N., Desmond, H., Rameez, M., Mohayaee, R., Sarkar, S.
1 Mar 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 4, 18p., stag201
Research output: Article
Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Tsaprazi, E., Heavens, A., Lavaux, G., McAlpine, S., Jasche, J.
1 Feb 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 2, 24p., staf2260
Research output: Article
Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Devriendt, J., Slyz, A., Lavaux, G., Hudson, M. J., Bartlett, D. J., Courtois, H. M.
1 Jan 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545, 2, 24p., staf1960
Research output: Article
2025
Ko, E., Yasin, T., Desmond, H., Stiskalek, R., Jarvis, M. J.
2 Dec 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544, 4, p. 4288-4305, 18p.
Research output: Article
Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Banik, I.
1 Oct 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543, 2, p. 1556-1573, 18p.
Research output: Article
Kammerer, L., Bartlett, D. J., Kronberger, G., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P. G.
26 Sep 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701, 13p., A284
Research output: Article