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
Affiliate, Informatics
External Links
Recent Publications
Akiyama, K., Albentosa-Ruíz, E., Alberdi, A., Alef, W., Algaba, J. C., Anantua, R., Asada, K., Azulay, R., Bach, U., Baczko, A. K., Ball, D., Baloković, M., Bandyopadhyay, B., Barrett, J., Bauböck, M., Benson, B. A., Bintley, D., Blackburn, L., Blundell, R., ... Zhao, S. S. (2025). The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87: II. Model comparisons and theoretical interpretations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, Article A265. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451296
Röder, J., Wielgus, M., Lobanov, A. P., Krichbaum, T. P., Nair, D. G., Lee, S. S., Ros, E., Fish, V. L., Blackburn, L., Chan, C. K., Issaoun, S., Janssen, M., Johnson, M. D., Doeleman, S. S., Bower, G. C., Crew, G. B., Tilanus, R. P. J., Savolainen, T., Violette Impellizzeri, C. M., ... Zhao, S. S. (2025). A multifrequency study of sub-parsec jets with the Event Horizon Telescope. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 695, Article A233. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452600
Baczko, A. K., Kadler, M., Ros, E., Fromm, C. M., Wielgus, M., Perucho, M., Krichbaum, T. P., Baloković, M., Blackburn, L., Chan, C. K., Issaoun, S., Janssen, M., Ricci, L., Akiyama, K., Albentosa-Ruíz, E., Alberdi, A., Alef, W., Algaba, J. C., Anantua, R., ... Zhao, G. Y. (2024). The putative center in NGC 1052. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 692, Article A205. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450898
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