Heidi Wu

Education

Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University

Areas of Expertise

Observational Cosmology
Computational Physics
Astrostatistics

Courses taught

PHYS 1304 Introductory Electricity and Magnetism
PHYS 1307 General Physics I
PHYS 3344 Classical Mechanics

Research Interests

Gravitational Lensing
Galaxy Clusters
Large-scale Structure
Galaxy Evolution
Cosmological Simulations

Selected Publications

• Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Clustering. DES Collaboration (2025)

• Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Clusters are Consistent with Planck. Salcedo, Wu, et al. (2023), PRL

• Optical selection bias and projection effects in stacked galaxy cluster weak lensing. Wu et al. (2022), MNRAS

• Cosmology with Galaxy Cluster Weak Lensing: Statistical Limits and Experimental Design. Wu et al. (2021), ApJ

• Covariance matrices for galaxy cluster weak lensing: from virial regime to uncorrelated large-scale structure. Wu et al. (2019), MNRAS