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John ChisholmOriginally from Madison Wisconsin, I grew up loving to travel, be outdoors, and play team sports. I studied physics at Boston College, and I also played football there. These days I get most of my activity through running and my team sports from the Milwaukee Brewers - Go Brew Crew! They still haven't lost a playoff game that I have been to... In my free time, I travel as much as I can. I have visited 32 countries and have ordered dinner in 16 different languages. Every once in a while I even get what I meant to order (usually cheese)! I love to hike and the mountains have always been a second home. I constantly dream of powder days and my snowboard. To date, I have summited fifteen 14ers in Colorado - only 43 more to go! I am always planning my next adventure. I recently hiked with penguins at the bottom of the world--I can't recommend it enough.
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Astronomy
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I am an Assistant Professor at UT, and I was previously a Hubble Fellow at the University of California-Santa Cruz working with Prof. X. Prochaska. I was previously a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Geneva working with Prof. Daniel Schaerer. I obtained a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Prof. Christy Tremonti. I attended Boston College, where I received a B.S. in Physics with a minor in Mathematics.
A full list of my publications can be found here. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] |
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I study the impact of massive stars on the gas within galaxies and outside of galaxies in the very early universe. I am currently thinking a lot about the stars in the first galaxies and how they established the conditions from which all of the local galaxies emerged.
I am most excited by my work describing how galactic outflows shape the observed mass-metallicity relation and determining the production of ionizing photons from FUV stellar continuum fits. Follow the buttons below to read more about that work.
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