We are inviting applications for a research opportunity centered on exploiting the information contained in the spectra of distant quasars. Quasars are among the brightest objects in the universe - supermassive black holes actively accreting matter with luminosities that allow us to observe them across billions of light-years. When we observe high-redshift quasars (z > 2), their light has traversed vast cosmological distances, passing through the intergalactic medium and intervening neutral hydrogen. This gas imprints characteristic Lyman-alpha absorption features - the "Lyman-alpha forest" - creating a powerful probe of dark matter and baryon distribution across cosmic epochs. In this internship, you will work with spectroscopic data from distant quasars to extract insights about cosmic structure formation and evolution. Depending on your interests, we can tailor the project: with a focus either on quasar physics (astrophysics) or the study large-scale structure (cosmology); and develop machine learning methods to learn from high redshift quasars spectra. A basic physics or astronomy background is helpful, but no deep cosmology expertise is required - just curiosity about decoding the universe's history from spectroscopic observations.