Welcome to my homepage! I'm a post-doc/adjunct assistant professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at Queen's University. I'm working with Larry Widrow on large scale structure and galaxy formation, and I currently hold a CITA National Fellowship. Before coming to Queen's I was a post-doc at McMaster University (with Hugh Couchman), and at UC Berkeley where I worked with Marc Davis. I also have links with the Virgo, Hydra and Seattle Consortia. My work is focused primarily on using simulations to aid our understanding of the structure formation process. Recently I've been collaborating with Evan Scannapieco, Patrick Petitjean and Christophe Pichon on high redshift galaxy formation and the influence of outflows on the Lyman alpha forest. I am also working on a stable clustering project with Ravi Sheth and Joerg Colberg, as well as the latest generation of Virgo Consortium simulations (being spearheaded by Volker Springel). I've also worked with Frazer Pearce, Peter Thomas and Eric Tittley in research conducted under the auspices of the Virgo Consortium. I got my PhD from the University of Alberta, where my supervisor was Don Page. I initially started working on early universe cosmology but later switched to structure formation, at which point Hugh Couchman became my co-supervisor. Since Hugh was at the University of Western Ontario at that time, I spent two years visiting the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UWO in London, Ontario. Outside of work I love to go hiking and backpacking - I fell in love with the Canadian rockies when I first saw them in 1995. Hiking also allows me to endulge another one of my passions - photography. I also love carpentry, although like all my other pasttimes, I invariably find myself stuck for time to get projects finished. If you are really curious you can see a picture of me hiking in the rockies. My up-to-date contact details are: Dr. Rob Thacker 308A, Stirling Hall Department of Physics Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6 Electronic-mail: (click here for address) Telephone: 613-533-6000 ext 78287 Facsimile: 613-533-6463