Arpit Arora (he/him/his)

My research focuses on understanding dark matter and its influence on galaxy formation/evolution in the context of our own Galaxy. I am particularly interested in modeling and quantifying the asymmetric distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way by building tailored tools that can work in the disequilibrium regime and zoomed hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of the Milky Way-mass galaxies. I use systems such as stellar streams--disrupted satellite galaxies--as a probe for DM. I am also interested in alternative dark matter models, specifically self-interacting dark matter and its effects at galactic scales.