Personal website of Ryan Brady
My work focuses on harnessing the properties of gravitational lensing for cosmological inference.
Specifically, I analyze doubly imaged quasars observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in an effort to
further constrain the value of the Hubble constant. I am currently an M.A. Physics student at Stony Brook University
and a member of the Astronomy & Cosmology Group under the mentorship
of Dr. Simon Birrer. I also received my Bachelor of Science with
honors in both Physics & Astronomy at SBU, where my thesis focused on the Gravitational Lens Modeling of Doubly Imaged Quasars.
To read more on my science and the Universe, please see my Research page.
Illustration of the gravitational lensing effect. The geodesics of photons are distored by the presence
of a massive gravitational potential (in this case a cluster of galaxies) as they travel towards our telescopes
on Earth. GIF credit: NASA, ESA, and Goddard Space Flight Center/K. Jackson.