Updates

8 Jul — Talk A supernova-free Cepheid route to H₀ at the Hubble & BAO Tensions conference, ICG Portsmouth.
6 Jul — My paper Learning the Universe with cosmological rescaling of merger trees and semi-analytic galaxy formation models accepted in ApJ. arXiv:2606.10024
2 Jul — My paper Forward-modelling Milky Way Cepheids: selection effects and physical priors in the Gaia–HST calibration accepted in MNRAS. arXiv:2603.09880
2 Jul — My paper S₈ from peculiar velocities: agreement with Planck for Tully–Fisher and supernovae, tension for the fundamental plane accepted in MNRAS. arXiv:2509.20235

25 Jun — New preprint: Forward-modelling the Tolman and distance-duality tests with IllustrisTNG (H. Desmond, T. Yasin, R. Stiskalek, S. von Hausegger) on arXiv. arXiv:2606.27182
23 Jun — Talk Cosmological Rescaling of Merger Trees at the SBI for Galaxy Evolution workshop, Cambridge.
11 Jun — Talk Supernova-free local ladders for H₀ at the Cosmology seminar, UCL.
8 Jun — New preprint: Learning the Universe with cosmological rescaling of merger trees and semi-analytic galaxy formation models (R. Stiskalek, L. A. Perez, S. Genel, R. S. Somerville, R. E. Angulo, S. Contreras) on arXiv. arXiv:2606.10024
8 Jun — New preprint: Learning the Universe: Constrained simulations of the Coma galaxy cluster — I. Radial X-ray and Compton-y signatures (U. P. Steinwandel, S. McAlpine, R. Stiskalek, et al.) on arXiv. arXiv:2606.10028
2 Jun — Online talk Supernova-free local ladders for H₀ at the GDR CoPhy Episode 4 meeting, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

29 May — Defended my DPhil thesis, examined by David Alonso and Kaisey Mandel.
1 May — Began my Hintze Prize Fellowship in Astrophysics (Cosmology) at the University of Oxford.

21 Apr — Talk Bridging Machine Learning and Cosmology at Scale at the PV Reconstruction online meeting.
8 Apr — Online talk Cosmological Rescaling of Merger Trees at the CAMELS + Baryon Pasting Workshop, University of Osaka.
7 Apr — New preprint: Introducing sapphire: Towards Hybrid Physics-Informed, Data-Driven Modeling of Galaxy Formation (V. Pandya, …, R. Stiskalek, …) on arXiv. arXiv:2604.06318

26 Mar — New preprint: Parameterizing Dark Energy at the density level: A two-parameter alternative to CPL (G. Montefalcone, R. Stiskalek) on arXiv. arXiv:2603.25735
10 Mar — New preprint: Forward-modelling Milky Way Cepheids: selection effects and physical priors in the Gaia–HST calibration (R. Stiskalek, A. Riess, H. Desmond, G. Lavaux, D. Scolnic) on arXiv. arXiv:2603.09880

14 Feb — Our paper Revisiting the Great Attractor (R. Stiskalek, H. Desmond, S. McAlpine, G. Lavaux, J. Jasche, M. J. Hudson) accepted in the Open Journal of Astrophysics. arXiv:2601.08524
7 Feb — New preprint: Testing cosmic anisotropy with cluster scaling relations (T. Yasin, R. Stiskalek, H. Desmond, S. von Hausegger, P. G. Ferreira) on arXiv. arXiv:2602.06007
4 Feb — Talk Velocity Field Olympics at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany.

12 Jan — New preprint: Testing subhalo abundance matching with galaxy kinematics (F. Boreiko, T. Yasin, H. Desmond, R. Stiskalek, M. J. Jarvis) on arXiv. arXiv:2601.07799