01 — current work
A census of strongly lensed Pop III candidates
The first generation of stars — Population III — formed from pristine gas, before the universe was seeded with metals. My current work is a systematic search for strongly lensed Pop III galaxy candidates at z ≈ 6–7 across the 60 galaxy-cluster fields of the JWST VENUS Treasury survey, combined with archival VLT/MUSE spectroscopy.
The gravity of a foreground cluster magnifies these intrinsically faint sources into reach; candidates are selected photometrically, vetted spectroscopically, and traced back through the lens to their intrinsic properties.
