Education

University of California, Santa Cruz- Astronomy & Astrophysics PhD program (2010 - 2016) 
University of California, Santa Cruz- Astronomy & Astrophysics M.S. (2012) 
California Institute of Technology- B.S. with honors in Physics (2010)

Positions
Institute for Theory and Computation Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2016-)
Teaching Assistant, Earth and Planetary Sciences 119, Introduction to Scientific Computing (Winter 2011) 
Graduate Student Researcher, with Mark R. Krumholz and Douglas N.C. Lin, UCSC (2010-2016) 
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, with B. Thomas Soifer and Jason Melbourne, Caltech (2009) 
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, with Christopher M. Hirata, Caltech (2008) 
Summer Researcher, with Oliver Gutsche, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2006,2007)
Quarknet Summer Intern, with Don Lincoln, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2005)

Awards

HST Cycle 22 "Predictive Simulations of Metals Ejected from Galaxies in Galactic Winds" (2014)
Whitford Prize (UCSC, 2012) 
National Science Foundation GRFP Fellowship (2011) 
UC Regents Fellowship (UCSC, 2010) 
NEXSI Fellowship (UCSC, 2010) 


Publications
16. Modeling the atomic-to-molecular transition in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
Diemer, B., Stevens, A.H.R., Forbes, J.C., et al, 2018 Submitted to ApJS

15. On the Existence of Brown Dwarfs More Massive than the Hydrogen Burning Limit
Forbes, J.C., Loeb, A. 2018 AAS Journals Submitted

14. A Unified Model for Galactic Discs: Star Formation, Turbulence Driving, and Mass Transport
Krumholz, M.R., Burkhart, B., Forbes, J.C., Crocker, R. M., 2018 MNRAS, 477, 2716

13. Habitable Evaporated Cores and the Occurrence of Panspermia near the Galactic Center
Chen, H., Forbes, J.C., Loeb A., 2018 ApJL 855 1

12. Evaporation of planetary atmospheres due to XUV illumination by quasars
Forbes, J.C., Loeb A., 2018 MNRAS Accepted

11. Suppression of star formation in dwarf galaxies by photoelectric grain heating feedback
Forbes, J.C., Krumholz, M.R., Goldbaum, N.J., and Dekel, A., 2016 Nature, 535, 523

10. Mass Transport and Turbulence in Gravitationally Unstable Disk Galaxies. II: The Effects of Star Formation Feedback
Goldbaum, N.J., Krumholz, M.R., and Forbes, J.C., 2016 ApJ, 827, 28

9. Stellar Mass--Gas-phase Metallicity Relation at 0.5≤z≤0.7: A Power Law with Increasing Scatter towards the Low-mass Regime
Guo, Y., Koo, D. C., Lu, Y., Forbes, J.C., et al., 2016, ApJ Accepted

8. Mass Transport and Turbulence in Gravitationally Unstable Disk Galaxies. I. The Case of Pure Self-gravity
Goldbaum, N.J., Krumholz, M.R., and Forbes, J.C., 2015 ApJ, 814 131

7. Curveballs in protoplanetary disks - the effect of the Magnus force on planet formation
Forbes, J.C.,  2015, MNRAS, 453 1779

6. VADER: A Flexible, Robust, Open-Source Code for Simulating Viscous Thin Accretion Disks.  
Krumholz, M.R. and Forbes, J.C., 2015 Astronomy & Computing 11 1

5. Mixing and transport of metals by gravitational instability-driven turbulence in galactic discs. 
Petit, A.C., Krumholz, M.R., Goldbaum, N.J., and Forbes, J.C., 2015 MNRAS, 449 2588

4. On the origin of the fundamental metallicity relation and the scatter in galaxy scaling relations. 
Forbes, J.C., Krumholz, M.R., Burkert, A., & Dekel, A. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 84 

3. Balance among gravitational instability, star formation, and accretion determines the structure and evolution of disk galaxies. 
Forbes, J.C., Krumholz, M.R., Burkert, A., & Dekel, A. 2014, MNRAS, 438, 1552

2. Evolving Gravitationally Unstable Disks Over Cosmic Time: Implications for Thick Disk Formation. 
Forbes, J., Krumholz, M.R.,& Burkert, A. 2012, ApJ, 754, 48 

1. Lyman-alpha transfer in primordial hydrogen recombination. 
Hirata, C.M., Forbes, J. 2009, Phys. Rev. D, 80, 023001


Non-Astrophysics-Research Publication(s):

Closer than we think?
Forbes, J.C. Nature Astronomy 2018, 2, 450–451


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