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 Krumholz and Doug 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
Evaporation of planetary atmospheres due to XUV illumination by quasars
Forbes, J.C., Loeb A., 2017 MNRAS Submitted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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




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