Welcome to my web page! I am a researcher at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, working in Michele Bannister's group. Prior to that I was a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute, a division of the Simons Foundation. Before moving to NYC I was an ITC Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and before that I earned my PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz where my thesis advisor was Mark Krumholz.

I am interested in a wide variety of topics in astrophysics, including understanding the origin of galaxy scaling relations, feedback and star formation in dwarf galaxies, the microphysics of multicomponent fluids, small-body galactic dynamics, and even brown dwarfs! Take a look at my Research and Publications pages for more info.

You can contact me at john.forbes@canterbury.ac.nz