Liam Nolan

Contact Information

127 Astronomy
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL
M/C 221

Office Hours

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Biography

Hello!  I completed my undergraduate education in Astrophysics, Physics, and French from Arizona State University, and joined UIUC Astronomy in Fall 2022.  I am deeply invested in astronomy public outreach and education.  I also like dragons.

Research Description

Currently working with Xin Liu on binary supermassive black hole candidate identification.

Education

M.S. in Astrophysics from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025

B.S. in Earth and Space Exploration (Astrophysics) from Arizona State University, 2022; minor in French

B.S. In Physics from Arizona State University, 2022

 

Awards and Honors

NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2024

NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2022

Additional Campus Affiliations

Graduate Employees’ Organization

Additional Information

Department Outreach Chair, 2022-2024

Highlighted Publications

Interactive Cosmology Visualization Using the Hubble UltraDeep Field Data in the Classroom, Astronomy Education Journal, 2022

Frequency and Abundance of Binary Supermassive Black Holes from Optical Variability Surveys (Fabulovs): Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Radial-velocity-selected Binary Candidates, Astrophysical Journal, 2025