About Alexander Kunkel

Data analyst at Transport & Environment, based in Brussels.

I am passionate about environmental protection, coffee, learning languages, playing the guitar, theoretical physics and mathematics.

Physics publications

A Hybrid Scheme for Fuzzy Dark Matter Simulations Combining the Schrödinger and Hamilton-Jacobi-Madelung Equations authored by Alexander Kunkel, Hei Yin Jowett Chan, Hsi-Yu Schive, Hsinhao Huang, Pin-Yu Liao, accepted for publication in ApJS, 2025
Cosmological zoom-in simulation of fuzzy dark matter down to z = 0: tidal evolution of subhaloes in a Milky Way-sized halo authored by Hei Yin Jowett Chan, Hsi-Yu Schive, Victor H Robles, Alexander Kunkel, Guan-Ming Su, Pin-Yu Liao, published in MNRAS, 2025.
Deciphering the Soliton-Halo Relation in Fuzzy Dark Matter authored by Pin-Yu Liao, Guan-Ming Su, Hsi-Yu Schive, Alexander Kunkel, Hsinhao Huang, Tzihong Chiueh, arxiv preprint, 2024.
A weak lensing perspective on nonlinear structure formation with fuzzy dark matter authored by Alexander Kunkel, Tzihong Chiueh and Björn Malte Schäfer, published in MNRAS, 2024.
My Master's thesis in theoretical astrophysics about perturbative and numerical calculations in the fuzzy dark matter model can be found here.
My Bachelor's thesis in mathematical physics about consistent symmetry reduction of action principles, especially with respect to Kaluza-Klein reduction in string theory can be found here.