Contact Information
1205 W. Clark St., Urbana
M/C 257
Research Areas
Research Interests
Formation of the first stars and galaxies
Primordial chemistry
High-performance computing and computational simulations
Analysis and visualization of astrophysical data
Education
BA from Northwestern in 2003
PhD from Stanford in 2009
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Theme Lead, School of Information Sciences
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
External Links
Recent Publications
Magnus, L. C., Smith, B. D., Khochfar, S., O’Shea, B. W., Wise, J. H., Norman, M. L., & Turk, M. J. (2024). The role of radiation and halo mergers in Pop III star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 307-320. Article stad3167. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3167
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2024). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Physical Interpretation of the Polarized Ring. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 964(2), Article L26. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df1
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2024). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 964(2), Article L25. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df0
Jorstad, S., Wielgus, M., Lico, R., Issaoun, S., Broderick, A. E., Pesce, D. W., Liu, J., Zhao, G. Y., Krichbaum, T. P., Blackburn, L., Chan, C. K., Janssen, M., Ramakrishnan, V., Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., Algaba, J. C., Bouman, K. L., Cho, I., Fuentes, A., ... Zhao, S. S. (2023). The Event Horizon Telescope Image of the Quasar NRAO 530. Astrophysical Journal, 943(2), Article 170. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acaea8
Prather, B. S., Dexter, J., Moscibrodzka, M., Pu, H. Y., Bronzwaer, T., Davelaar, J., Younsi, Z., Gammie, C. F., Gold, R., Wong, G. N., Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., Alef, W., Algaba, J. C., Anantua, R., Asada, K., Azulay, R., Bach, U., Baczko, A. K., ... Zhao, S. S. (2023). Comparison of Polarized Radiative Transfer Codes Used by the EHT Collaboration. Astrophysical Journal, 950(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc586
