Dashon Jones
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Experience
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Rice University
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Houston, Texas, United States
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Graduate Student
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Aug 2023 - Present
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Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
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Research Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Research Assistant
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Aug 2022 - Present
Continuing work from the summer on the sources of the first X-rays in the early universe.
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NSF Research Fellow
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Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Working with Dr. Julian Munoz on analyzing the first X-ray sources by using 21-cm data. Running cosmological simulations using the semi-numerical 21cmFAST code.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Summer Undergraduate KCS Science Scholar
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May 2021 - Present
Scholarship to pursue part-time undergraduate research in the Kennedy college of sciences. My project was on numerical calculations on the entanglement entropy of Reissner-Nordstrom black holes.
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Undergraduate Student Researcher
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Feb 2020 - Present
Research in Theoretical Cosmology under the mentorship of Nishant Agarwal. Research focus on the quantum mechanical properties of black holes and how entanglement entropy changes in different topologies.
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Summer Student Researcher
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Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
An eight-week REU in applied mathematics under the mentor ship of Dr. Hrusa. My project was in mathematical finance, specifically seeing how investors react to a specific investment scheme. An eight-week REU in applied mathematics under the mentor ship of Dr. Hrusa. My project was in mathematical finance, specifically seeing how investors react to a specific investment scheme.
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Education
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Rice University Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics -
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Mathematics -
Lynn English High School