WELCOME!
I'm Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Penn. I work on Theoretical Cosmology, play squash and love cricket.
I did my undergraduate studies at Haverford College, just outside Philadelphia. My PhD is from Cambridge University, England; I was a Marshall Scholar at the Institute of Astronomy. After my PhD I spent time at Berkeley, the Max-Planck Institute fuer Astrophysik just outside Munich, and Fermilab. I then spent three years as an Assistant Professor at Pitt before moving to Penn in 2005.

My group at Penn includes:
-Michelle Caler: MgII systems in the SDSS
-Matt Martino: Halo formation and environment in alternative gravity models
-Jorge Moreno: Merger history trees in ellipsoidal collapse models
-Graziano Rossi: Galaxy scaling relations from photometric redshift surveys
-Tsz Yan Lam: Physics and statistics of nonlinear gravitational clustering

A more detailed listing of my academic travels and achievements is given in my CV.

Tel: (215)-898-5942
Fax: (215)-898-2010
Email: shethrk AT physics.upenn.edu


Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
209 S. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396