Drummond Fielding
Drummond Fielding
Principal Investigator of Initiative for the Geometry of Flows. Assistant Professor at New York University, Department of Physics.
Research topic
Fluid dynamics and plasma physics; magnetized turbulence and reconnection; cosmic-ray transport; cloud interfaces and multiphase mixing; interstellar phase structure; galactic feedback; cosmological inference; geometry of rough interfaces and connections to geometric measure theory; simulation-guided and data-driven methods.
Biography
I am an assistant professor of physics at New York University. My research seeks to reveal the essential physics driving a diverse array of astronomical systems. By developing intuitive, robust models guided by state-of-the-art simulations, my work sits at the nexus of fluid dynamics, plasma physics, galaxy formation, and cosmology—and intersects with fields such as climate modeling and pure mathematics. Methodologically, I develop and test frameworks that address problems spanning magnetized turbulence, reconnection, cosmic-ray transport, cloud and phase-transition interfaces, feedback processes, and cosmological inference, asking questions that probe the underlying principles of complex, multiscale flows.
Before NYU, I was a professor at Cornell (2023–2025) and a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute. I received my Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley (advisor: Eliot Quataert).