Harry Desmond

Biography

I joined the ICG as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2022, supported by a Royal Society URF. Before that I was a McWilliams Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, and before that a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. I obtained my PhD from Stanford University in 2017.

Research interests

I am interested primarily in developing new tests of the standard model of cosmology (gravity and/or dark sector physics) using astrophysical objects, mainly galaxies and stars. My work ranges from pure theory, through N-body and hydrodynamical simulations to statistical data analysis. I am also interested in galaxy formation and how best to characterise the relation between galaxies and their host dark matter halos.

Research outputs

2025

Testing the local supervoid solution to the Hubble tension with direct distance tracers

Stiskalek, R., Desmond, H., Banik, I.

1 Oct 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543, 2, p. 1556-1573, 18p.

Research output: Article

syren-baryon: analytic emulators for the impact of baryons on the matter power spectrum

Kammerer, L., Bartlett, D. J., Kronberger, G., Desmond, H., Ferreira, P. G.

26 Sep 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701, 13p., A284

Research output: Article

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

Di Valentino, E., Said, J. L., Riess, A., Pollo, A., Poulin, V., Gómez-Valent, A., Weltman, A., Palmese, A., Huang, C. D., Bruck, C. v. d., Saraf, C. S., Kuo, C. Y., Uhlemann, C., Grandón, D., Paz, D., Eckert, D., Teixeira, E. M., Saridakis, E. N., Colgáin, E., Beutler, F., Niedermann, F., Bajardi, F., Barenboim, G., Gubitosi, G., Musella, I., Banik, I., Szapudi, I., Singal, J., Cases, J. H., Chluba, J., Torrado, J., Mifsud, J., Jedamzik, K., Said, K., Dialektopoulos, K., Herold, L., Vincenzi, M., Pace, F., Desmond, H., Sakstein, J., Naidoo, K., Pogosian, L., Gsponer, R., Joudaki, S., Hellwing, W., Bose, B., Mueller, E. M., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Grimm, N., Baker, T.

1 Sep 2025, In: Physics of the Dark Universe. 49, 263p., 101965

Research output: Article

Consistencies and inconsistencies in redshift-independent distances

Desmond, H., Nájera, J. A.

1 Aug 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541, 2, p. 671–686

Research output: Article

MIGHTEE-HI: the radial acceleration relation with resolved stellar mass measurements

Vărăşteanu, A. A., Jarvis, M. J., Ponomareva, A. A., Desmond, H., Heywood, I., Yasin, T., Maddox, N., Glowacki, M., Maksymowicz-Maciata, M., Piña, P. E. M., Pan, H.

23 Jul 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541, 3, p. 2366–2392

Research output: Article