Emmy Noether Group Leader
My group focuses on bridging the observational data and fundamental physics. In particular, the group is interested in applying higher-order statistics to galaxy data to extract cosmological information from the galaxy distribution, study the growth of cosmic structures, probe early-Universe physics, and test fundamental symmetries such as parity violation on cosmological scales.
I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and obtained my degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2020. I received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in the 2020 call, with MPE as my home institute. I subsequently worked as a research associate at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Institute of Astronomy and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology. I have now started my Emmy Noether research group at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The three-dimensional distribution of galaxies encodes the physics of the Universe from its earliest moments to today. My group develops higher-order statistics — from N-point correlation functions to advanced compressed estimators — and applies them to millions of galaxies mapped by surveys such as DESI. With these tools we test fundamental symmetries such as parity on cosmological scales, probe the physics of the early Universe, and use simulation-based inference to extract the maximum cosmological information from the data.
Email: jiamin.hou@physik.uni-muenchen.de
Address:
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Scheinerstraße 1, 81679
Germany
My passion for the Universe stems from my passion in comprehending time and existence. I want to explore the language behind the world and the flow of life. I prefer to observe before I can fully express my respect for the nature.
Apart from my research interest, I enjoy poems, scotches, extreme sports, and German bread.