{"id":2943,"date":"2022-12-21T11:34:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/profiles\/?post_type=faculty&#038;p=2943"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:19:59","slug":"rahul-kannan","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/profiles\/faculty\/rahul-kannan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Kannan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cosmological structure formation, interstellar medium, feedback processes, fluid dynamics, radiation hydrodynamics, plasma physics, high performance computing, numerical algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a computational astrophysicist working on modeling galaxy formation and evolution in a cosmological context. 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