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
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences
Affiliate, Informatics
Associate Professor, Astronomy
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science
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
Dahale, R., Cho, I., Moriyama, K., Wiik, K., Tiede, P., Gómez, J. L., Chan, C. K., Gold, R., Bernshteyn, V. Y., Foschi, M., Jeter, B., Pu, H. Y., Georgiev, B., Joshi, A. V., Cruz-Osorio, A., Natarajan, I., Broderick, A. E., Salas, L. D. S., Chatterjee, K., ... Zhao, S. S. (2025). Origin of the ring ellipticity in the black hole images of M87. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 699, Article A279. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555235
Goddi, C., Carlos, D. F., Crew, G. B., Matthews, L. D., Messias, H., Mus, A., Martí-Vidal, I., Albentosa-Ruíz, E., De Laurentis, M., Liuzzo, E., Marchili, N., Rygl, K. L. J., Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., Alef, W., Carlos Algaba, J., Anantua, R., Asada, K., Azulay, R., ... Zhao, S. S. (2025). First polarization study of the M87 jet and active galactic nuclei at submillimeter wavelengths with ALMA. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 699, Article A265. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554140
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
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2025). Horizon-scale variability of M87* from 2017–2021 EHT observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 704, Article A91. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555855