Rate My Professor Jahmour Givans

Jahmour Jamaree Givans is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Cincinnati. He earned a Sc.B. in Astrophysics from Brown University in 2016 and a Ph.D. in Physics from The Ohio State University in 2021 under the advisement of Professor Chris Hirata, during which he was affiliated with the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics. Prior to joining the University of Cincinnati, Givans held positions as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute, Guest Researcher in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, and a 2022-2023 member of the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts in Astrophysics.

Givans specializes in theoretical cosmology, developing analytical models, cosmological simulations, and computational tools to improve the extraction of cosmological parameters from observables like the Lyman-α forest, cosmic microwave background lensing, and galaxy clustering. His research addresses fundamental questions about dark energy, neutrino masses, and tests of the Lambda-CDM model using data from upcoming Stage IV surveys. He contributes to key collaborations including the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Lyman-α working group, and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope detector working group. He is a founding member of the DESI Weekly Research Forum organizing committee since 2020 and holds memberships in the American Physical Society, National Society of Black Physicists, and Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. Notable publications include "Non-linearities in the Lyman-α forest and the one-loop power spectrum from BOSS" (2022), "Simulating image coaddition with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope" (2024), "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 maps" (2025), and "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and ΛCDM Parameters" (2025).