Education

Ph.D. in Astrophysics (magna cum laude)2017 – 2021
Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
M.Sc. in Astrophysics2015 – 2017
Argelander Institute für Astronomie (AIfA), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
Academic semester2013
Department of Physics, University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, USA
B.Sc. in Physics (graduated with honours)2010 – 2015
Faculty of Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad de México, México

Employment

Future Faculty Leaders Fellow & ITC Fellow01.2023 – 07.2026
Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics & Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow12.2021 – 01.2023
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Postdoctoral Fellow02.2021 – 11.2021
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea

Honors, Awards & Grants

CfA Conference proposal (co-I) — Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays across Diverse Scales2025
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA (11,980 USD)
Harvard University SYEP Fund2024
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA (2,870 USD)
Cambridge City Support Fund for SRMP2024
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA (36,000 USD)
CfA Conference proposal (PI) — Galaxy Clusters and Radio Relics II2024
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA (18,810 USD)
Cambridge City Support Fund for SRMP2023
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA (36,000 USD)
Future Faculty Leaders Fellowship2023
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA
Doctoral Funding — Hamburg Act for the Promotion of Young Researchers and Artists2021
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Doctoral Funding — Equal Opportunity Fund (declined)2020
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
DAAD Fellowship for Master Studies in Astrophysics — CONACyT-DAAD2015
AIfA, Bonn, Germany
Scholarship for Undergraduate Thesis Work — PAPIIT-DGAPA2014
UNAM, Ciudad de México, México
Undergraduate Funding for Research Program — PAPIIT-DGAPA2013
UNAM, Ciudad de México, México
Grant for Academic Semester at the University of New Mexico — DGECI-UNAM2013
UNM, Albuquerque, USA

Publications (selected)

9 as a first author, 23 as a co-author. See my Google Scholar profile here and my NASA-ADS profile here.

  1. ICM-SHOX III. The case of MACS J0018.5+1626, a radio relic that looks like a radio halo?
    P. Domínguez-Fernández, J. ZuHone, E. M. Silich, E. Bellomi, J. Sayers, T. Mroczkowski, et al.
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae8f3c

  2. Jet interaction with galaxy cluster mergers
    P. Domínguez-Fernández, J. ZuHone, R. Weinberger, E. Bellomi, L. Hernquist, P. Nulsen, G. Brunetti.
    https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9028

  3. Radio surface fluctuations in radio relics
    P. Domínguez-Fernández, D. Ryu, H. Kang.
    https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348398

  4. Morphology of radio relics - II. Properties of polarized emission
    P. Domínguez-Fernández, M. Brüggen, F. Vazza, M. Hoeft, W. E. Banda-Barragán, K. Rajpurohit, D. Wittor, A. Mignone, D. Mukherjee, B. Vaidya.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2353

  5. Accretion of a Vlasov gas onto a black hole from a sphere of finite radius and the role of angular momentum
    A. Gamboa, C. Gabarrete, P. Domínguez-Fernández, D. Núñez, O. Sarbach.
    https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.083001

  6. Exploring the spectral properties of radio relics – I: integrated spectral index and Mach number
    D. Wittor, S. Ettori, F. Vazza, K. Rajpurohit, M. Hoeft, Domínguez-Fernández, P.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1735

  7. Dissecting nonthermal emission in the complex multiple-merger galaxy cluster Abell 2744: Radio and X-ray analysis
    K. Rajpurohit, F. Vazza, R. J. van Weeren, M. Hoeft, M. Brienza, E. Bonnassieux, C. J. Riseley, G. Brunetti, A. Bonafede, M. Brüggen, W. R. Formann, H. J. A. Röttgering, A. Drabent, A. S. Rajpurohit, P. Domínguez-Fernández, D. Wittor, F. Andrade-Santos
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05690

  8. The intracluster magnetic field in the double relic galaxy cluster Abell 2345
    Stuardi, C., Bonafede, A., Lovisari, L., Domínguez-Fernández, P., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M., van Weeren, R. J., de Gasperin, F.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab218

  9. Understanding the radio relic emission in the galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745: Spectral analysis
    Rajpurohit, K., Wittor, D., van Weeren, R. J., Vazza, F., Hoeft, M., Rudnick, L., Locatelli, N., Eilek, J., Forman, W. R., Bonafede, A., Bonnassieux, E., Riseley, C. J., Brienza, M., Brunetti, G., Brüggen, M., Loi, F., Rajpurohit, A. S., Röttgering, H. J. A., Botteon, A., Clarke, T. E., Drabent, A., Domínguez-Fernández, P., Di Gennaro, G., Gastaldello, F.
    https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039428

  10. Fast magnetic field amplification in distant galaxy clusters
    Di Gennaro, G., van Weeren, R. J., Brunetti, G., Cassano, R., Brüggen, M., Hoeft, M., Shimwell, T. W., Röttgering, H. J. A., Bonafede, A., Botteon, A., Cuciti, V., Dallacasa, D., de Gasperin, F., Domínguez-Fernández, P., Enßlin, T. A., Gastaldello, F., Mandal, S., Rossetti, M. and Simionescu, A.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01244-5

  11. Morphology of radio relics I: What causes the substructure of synchrotron emission?
    Domínguez-Fernández, P., Brüggen, M., Vazza, F., Banda-Barragán, W. E., Rajpurohit, K., Mignone, A., Mukherjee, D. and Vaidya, B.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3018

  12. Polarisation of Radio Relics in Galaxy Clusters
    Wittor, D., Hoeft, M., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M. and Domínguez-Fernández, P.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2715

  13. Dynamical evolution of magnetic fields in the intracluster medium
    Domínguez-Fernández, P., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M. and Brunetti, G.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz877

  14. The challenge of detecting intracluster filaments with Faraday Rotation
    Locatelli, N., Vazza, F., Domínguez-Fernández, P.
    https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6040128

  15. Spectral analysis of magnetic fields in simulated galaxy clusters
    Domínguez-Fernández, P., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M.
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2548940

  16. Description of the evolution of inhomogeneities on a Dark Matter halo with the Vlasov equation
    Domínguez-Fernández, P., Jiménez-Vázquez, E., Alcubierre, M.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-017-2286-8

Relevant professional experience

Co-director of the Science and Research Mentoring Program (SRMP)
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, MA, USA
2023 - present
Link

Deputy Co-Chair of the Postdoc Council of Center for Astrophysics
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, MA, USA
2023 - present
Link

Member of the Student Council of the Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence
University of Hamburg, Germany
2020 - 2021
Link

Equal Opportunity Officer at the Hamburger Sternwarte
University of Hamburg, Germany
2018 - 2021
Link

Teaching experience

Professor of Electromagnetism08.2026 – 11.2026
Faculty of Science, UNAM, México
SRMP Lecturer: Introduction to Python08.2025 – 09.2025
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, MA, USA
SRMP Lecturer: Introduction to Python08.2024 – 09.2024
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, MA, USA
SRMP Lecturer: Introduction to Python08.2023 – 09.2023
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, MA, USA
Laboratory in Photometry of stars02.2017 – 05.2017
University of Bonn, Germany
Teaching Assistant in General Relativity08.2015 – 12.2015
Faculty of Science, UNAM, México
Teaching Assistant in Contemporary Physics02.2014 – 06.2014
Faculty of Science, UNAM, México

Succesful computational proposals

Primordial Magnetic Fields through Large scale Structure formation II
Principal investigator
Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch- und Höchst­leis­tungs­rech­nen (HLRN), Germany
50,000 node-h

The shocking and turbulent life of radio emitting electrons in the simulated intracluster medium 2
Co-principal investigator
JUWELS, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
1.29 million core-h

Primordial Magnetic Fields through Large scale Structure formation
Principal investigator
Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch- und Höchst­leis­tungs­rech­nen (HLRN), Germany
83,340 node-h

The shocking and turbulent life of radio emitting electrons in the simulated intracluster medium
Co-principal investigator
JUWELS, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
0.7 million core-h

Schools & Internships

Les Houches Physics School: The multiple approaches to plasma physics2019
Ecole de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France
Research work: Distribution functions describing Vlasov perturbations in Dark Matter Haloes2016
Gravitation and Field Theory Department of ICN, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México
Research work: Dark Matter as a fluid or collection of particles2013
Gravitation and Field Theory Department of ICN, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México
Summer school in Astrophysics2013
Radioastronomy and Astrophysics Center (CRyA), Morelia, México

Astrophysical codes

  • ENZO

  • PLUTO

  • FLASH

  • GADGET