Sultan Hassan ( ar, سلطان حسن) is a Sudanese computational astrophysicist and

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Hubble Fellow. Hassan was born in Saudi Arabia. In 2009, he received a

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in Physics from the

University of Khartoum The University of Khartoum (U of K) ( ar, جامعة الخرطوم) is a public university located in Khartoum, Sudan. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 195 ...

, Sudan. In 2013, he received an

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in Astrophysics & Space Science from the

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, South Africa, and a PhD from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. During his PhD studies, Hassan became a visiting fellow at the

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for Astrophysics until 2017. In 2018, he became a

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Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Cape, followed by a Tombaugh Postdoctoral Fellow at New Mexico State University from 2018 to 2020. In September 2020, he became Flatiron Research Fellow at the

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. In 2022, Hassan was selected for

Hubble Fellowship Program as a Hubble Fellow hosted at

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. Hassan specialises in computational astrophysics, focusing on large-scale galaxy formation and high-resolution radiative-transfer simulations coupled with

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and

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techniques for multimodal information extraction and understanding of how the Intergalactic and Circumgalactic media both had evolved from Cosmic Dawn.

Selected publications

*Hassan S, Davé R, Finlator K, Santos MG. '' Simulating the 21 cm signal from reionization including non-linear ionizations and inhomogeneous recombinations.'' ''

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'' 2016;457:1550–67. *Hassan S, Davé R, Mitra S, Finlator K, Ciardi B, Santos MG. '' Constraining the contribution of active galactic nuclei to reionization.'' ''

'' 2018;473:227–40. *Hassan S, Andrianomena S, Doughty C. ''Constraining the astrophysics and cosmology from 21 cm tomography using deep learning with the SKA''. ''

'' 2020;494:5761–74. *Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro F, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shy Genel, David N Spergel, Rachel S Somerville, Romeel Dave, Annalisa Pillepich, Lars Hernquist, Dylan Nelson, Paul Torrey, Desika Narayanan, Yin Li, Oliver Philcox, Valentina La Torre, Ana Maria Delgado, Shirley Ho, Sultan Hassan, Blakesley Burkhart, Digvijay Wadekar, Nicholas Battaglia, Gabriella Contardo, Greg L Bryan
The CAMELS Project: Cosmology and Astrophysics with Machine-learning Simulations
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.'' 2021; 915:71.

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2022 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Fellows.
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