Reinabelle Reyes

Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University

You can call me Reina. I am a PhD candidate in Astrophysics at Princeton University. Before coming here, I studied theoretical particle physics at the International Center of Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. I received my undergraduate degree in Physics from Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines-- my home country.

For the curious, my name "Reina" means "queen" (in Spanish/Filipino), "Belle" means "beautiful" (in French/a certain Disney film) and "Reyes" means "kings" (in Spanish)-- so in a phrase: "beautiful queen of kings." :)

Contact Information

• Mailing Address:
  Peyton Hall
  Ivy Lane, Princeton NJ 08544
• Email Address:
  rreyes[at]astro.princeton.edu
• Office Phone:
  (609) 258-0629

• Testing gravity on large scales using cosmological observations
  Collaborators: Rachel Mandelbaum, Lucas Lombriser (Univ. of Zurich), Uros Seljak, Jim Gunn (Princeton)
• Constraining the amplitude of fluctuations (\sigma_8) using galaxy clusters
  Collaborators: Rachel Mandelbaum (IAS), Neta Bahcall (Princeton), Chris Hirata (Caltech), Uros Seljak (Univ. of Zurich/UC Berkeley)
  
• Dust emission in the infrared spectra of SINGS galaxies
  Collaborators: Bruce Draine (Princeton)
• Cometary Knots around the Helix Planetary Nebula
  Collaborators: Aristotle Socrates (Princeton), Bruce Draine (Princeton)

• Reyes, R., Zakamska, N.L., Strauss, M.A., et al. 2008, Space Density of Optically-Selected Type 2 Quasars, submitted to The Astronomical Journal
  -preprint available at astro-ph arXiv:0801.1115
  -online catalog available here
  -see press release here and physorg article here
  -poster presented at the 211th AAS meeting (Austin, TX) available here
• Reyes, R., Mandelbaum, R., Hirata, C., Bahcall, N. & Seljak, U. 2008, Improved Optical Mass Tracer for Galaxy Clusters Calibrated Using Weak Lensing Measurements, submitted to MNRAS
  -preprint available at astro-ph arXiv:0802.2365
  

• Modified Gravity on Cosmological Scales, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK, June 2008
• SDSS Large-Scale Structure/BOSS (Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey) Working Group Meeting, Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, February 2008
• 211th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, Texas, January 2008
• SDSS-II (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) Collaboration Meeting, Drexel University, Philadelphia, March 2007
• SCS PIRE Summer School on the Large Scale Structure-CMB Connection, Santiago, Chile, March 2007

• Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, Honorable Mention, American Astronomical Society, 211th Meeting (2007)
• Centennial Fellowship, Princeton University Graduate School (2006-2010)
• Merit Prize Fellowship Grant, Princeton University Graduate School (2006-2010)
• Martin Schwarschild Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University (2006-2007)
• Academic Scholarship, Ateneo de Manila University (2001-2005)
• Merit Science Scholarship, Department of Science and Technology (2001-2005)

• Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA (2006-present)
• Diploma in High Energy Physics, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (2005-2006)
• B.S. in Physics, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines (2001-2005, Summa cum Laude)
• High School Diploma, Philippine Science High School, Quezon City, Philippines (2001, Valedictorian)