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
Assistant Professor, Astronomy
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Center for Social & 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
McDowell, K., Hu, X., & Turk, M. J. (2024). Developing Library and Data Storytelling Toolkits: Scenarios and Personas. In I. Sserwanga, H. Joho, J. Ma, P. Hansen, D. Wu, M. Koizumi, & A. J. Gilliland (Eds.), Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win - 19th International Conference, iConference 2024, Proceedings (pp. 410-420). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14596 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57850-2_31
McDowell, K., & Turk, M. J. (2024). Teaching data storytelling as data literacy. Information and Learning Science, 125(5-6), 321-345. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0068
Paraschos, G. F., Kim, J. Y., Wielgus, M., Röder, J., Krichbaum, T. P., Ros, E., Agudo, I., Myserlis, I., Moscibrodzka, M., Traianou, E., Zensus, J. A., Blackburn, L., Chan, C. K., Issaoun, S., Janssen, M., Johnson, M. D., Fish, V. L., Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., ... Zhao, S. S. (2024). Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 682, Article L3. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348308
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