Dr Nina Maksimova
Research Fellow in Biblical Studies, Literary Analysis and Software Engineering
Biography
Nina Maksimova builds software to interpret cosmological narratives. She did her undergraduate work at Dartmouth College in theoretical cosmology, then completed a PhD at Harvard University in supercomputing for astrophysics, in 2022. Her thesis centred on the co-creation of AbacusSummit, the world’s largest set of high-accuracy cosmological N-body simulations to date. She then augmented her training in the mathematical and programming languages with an MLitt from the University of St Andrews in the Biblical Languages and Literature. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is designing software to facilitate biblical exegesis and literary analysis of stories that ask universal questions: where did our Universe come from? How will it end? What is our role in its larger logos?
Selected publications
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AbacusSummit: a massive set of high-accuracy, high-resolution N-body simulations
Maksimova, N., Garrison, L., Eisenstein, D., Hadzhiyska, B., Bose, S. & Satterthwaite, T., 7 Sept 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508, 3, p. 4017-4037Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The ABACUS cosmological N-body code
Garrison, L., Eisenstein, D., Ferrer, D., Maksimova, N. & Pinto, P., 7 Sept 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508, 1, p. 575-596Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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COMPASO: a new halo finder for competitive assignment to spherical overdensities
Hadzhiyska, B., Eisenstein, D., Bose, S., Garrison, L. & Maksimova, N., 19 Oct 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 509, 1, p. 501-521Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gravitational wave–Gauge field oscillations
Caldwell, R., Devulder, C. & Maksimova, N., 15 Sept 2016, In: Physical Review D.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Spectral distortion in a radially inhomogeneous cosmology
Caldwell, R. & Maksimova, N., 15 Oct 2013, In: Physical Review D.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review