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Eve M Vavagiakis

Assistant Professor of Physics
Physics

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Physics · 2024 - Present Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published June 16, 2025
Summer Reading: Duke Authors’ Hot New Books
Published October 2, 2024
New Physics Professor Eve Vavagiakis Has Baby Pictures of the Universe

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Recent Publications


Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect from DESI Y1 and ACT data

Journal Article Physical Review D · November 7, 2025 The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (kSZ). We precisely measure this effect (S=N ≈ 10) via vel ... Full text Cite

Evidence for large baryonic feedback at low and intermediate redshifts from kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich observations with ACT and DESI photometric galaxies

Journal Article Physical Review D · October 6, 2025 Recent advances in cosmological observations have provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the distribution of baryons relative to the underlying matter. In this work, we show that the gas is more extended than the dark matter, and the amount o ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2013 - 2028

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Education, Training & Certifications


Cornell University · 2021 Ph.D.
Cornell University · 2017 M.S.