Prospective Students
I am always happy to talk with new students about research projects, particularly related to my Current Research Interests. If you are an Ohio State graduate student, please email me. If you are a prospective graduate student, please apply to our Astronomy Ph.D. Program. And if you are an undergraduate at Ohio State, please apply to our Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
Current Students and Postdocs
I am presently working with these students, postdocs, and visitors:
Undergraduate Students
- Simon Filbert
BAL QSOs in DESI
Graduate Students (pre-candidacy)
- Wynne Turner
Lyman-alpha Forest Cosmology with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Graduate Students (Ph.D. students)
- Lauren Ennesser
Lyman-alpha Forest Cosmology with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
- Zhefu Yu
Reverberation Mapping with DES/OzDES
Postdocs and Visitors
- None at present
Former Students and Postdocs
In the past I worked with the following students and postdocs. For each I have
listed the title of the paper they wrote with me and their current affiliation.
Undergraduate Students
- Melissa Rice (Wellesley/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
- Project: Spatially-Resolved Narrow Line Region Kinematics in AGN
- Publication: Rice et al. (2006)
- Graduate school: Cornell University, Ph.D. 2012
- Present Whereabouts: Postdoctoral scholar at Caltech
- Timothy Arnold (Ohio State)
- Project: Active Galactic Nuclei in Groups and Clusters: Detection and Host Morphology
- Publication: Arnold et al. (2009)
- Graduate school: University of Arizona
- Present Whereabouts: Working in Baltimore, MD
- Other: Recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Man-Hong Wong (Ohio State)
- Projects: Secular Evolution at the End of the Hubble Sequence and OSMOS: The Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph
- Publications: Stoll et al. (2010), Martini et al. (2011), Watson et al. (2012)
- Graduate school: University of Illinois (Physics)
- Other: ALS Fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Jaffri Ahmad (Earlham College, SROP at Ohio State)
- Project: Post Outburst Evolution of V4332 Sgr
- Graduate school: Columbia University (Nutrition)
- Johnny Greco (Ohio State; co-advised with Todd Thompson)
- Project: The mass distribution and stellar populations of M82
- Publication: Greco, Martini, and Thompson (2012) [Video]
- Whereabouts: Currently a graduate student in astronomy at Princeton University
- Other: Recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Michael Macuga (Ohio State)
- Project: The Fraction of Active Galactic Nuclei in the USS 1558-003 Protocluster at z = 2.53
- Publication: Macuga, Martini et al. (2018) [arxiv:1805.06569]
- Whereabouts: Self-employed
- Zhiyuan Guo (Ohio State)
- Project: Classification of Broad Absorption Line Quasars with Convolutional Neural Networks
- Publication: Guo and Martini, 2019, ApJ, 879, 72
- Whereabouts: Graduate student at Duke University
- Wanting (Victoria) Niu (Ohio State)
- Project: Broad Absorption Line Quasar Templates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
- Whereabouts: Graduate student at Penn State University
Graduate Students
- Molly Peeples
- Project: Bars and Circumnuclear Dust
- Publication: Peeples and Martini (2006)
- Graduation: 2010 (Advisor: D. Weinberg)
- After Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Galaxy Evolution, UCLA
- Present Whereabouts: Astronomer at STScI
- Jason Eastman
- Project: Evolution of AGN in Clusters of Galaxies
- Publication: Eastman et al. (2007)
- Graduation: 2011 (Advisor: B.S. Gaudi)
- Whereabouts: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
- David Atlee
- Thesis: The Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies in Clusters
- Publications: Atlee et al. (2011), Atlee and Martini (2012)
- Graduation: 2011 (Advisor: P. Martini)
- Whereabouts: Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY York College
- Linda Watson
- Thesis: Star Formation in Bulgeless Disk Galaxies
- Publications: Watson et al. (2008), (2011), (2012)
- Graduation: 2011 (Advisor: P. Martini)
- Whereabouts: ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile
- Jonathan Bird
- Project: Lifetime of FRII Radio Galaxies
- Publication: Bird et al. (2008)
- Graduation: 2012 (Advisor: D.H. Weinberg)
- Whereabouts: VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University
- Rebecca Stoll
- Project: OSMOS: The Ohio State MultiObject Spectrograph
- Publications: Stoll et al. (2010)
- Graduation: 2013 (Advisor: R.W. Pogge)
- Whereabouts: Postdoctoral Researcher at Yale University
- Catherine Grier
- Project: Stellar Velocity Dispersions in High Luminosity Quasar Hosts
- Publications: Grier et al. (2013)
- Graduation: 2013 (Advisor: B.M. Peterson)
- Whereabouts: Postdoctoral Researcher, Penn State University
- Brett Andrews
- Project: The Mass-Metallicity Relation
- Publications: Andrews and Martini (2013)
- Graduation: 2014 (Advisor: D.H. Weinberg)
- Whereabouts: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh
- Joe Antognini
- Project: The Lifetime of Radio Galaxies in Groups and Clusters
- Publications: Antognini, Bird, and Martini (2012)
- Graduation: 2015 (Advisor: T.A. Thompson)
- Whereabouts: Lead Computational Scientist, Persyst Development Corporation
- Carl Coker
- Project: The Intrinsic UV Luminosity of M82 (co-advised with T.A. Thompson)
- Publications: Coker, Thompson, and Martini (2013)
- Project: Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (co-advised with R.W. Pogge)
- Publications: Coker et al. (2016)
- Whereabouts: NASA Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: R.W. Pogge, B.S. Gaudi)
- Scott Adams
- Project: A Search for Cluster Progenitors at Redshift Four
- Publications: Adams, Martini, et al. (2015)
- Graduation: 2016 (Advisor: C.S. Kochanek)
- Whereabouts: Postdoctoral Researcher at Caltech
- Humberto Gilmer
- Project: Reverberation Mapping
- Whereabouts: Graduate student at Ohio State (Physics)
- Jonathan Brown
- Project: Strong-line Calibrations of Gas Abundances in Galaxies
- Publications: Brown, Martini, and Andrews (2016)
- Whereabouts: Graduate student at Ohio State (Advisor: K.Z. Stanek)
- Gregory Simonian
- Project: Circumstellar Dust in Early Type Galaxies
- Publications: Simonian and Martini (2016)
- Whereabouts: Graduate student at Ohio State (Advisor: M.H. Pinsonneault)
- Dale Mudd
- Thesis: Understanding Supermassive Black Holes Using the Dark Energy Survey and OzDES
- Publications: Mudd et al. (2016), Mudd et al. (2017)
- Graduation: 2017 (Advisor: P. Martini)
- Whereabouts: Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Irvine
- Emily Griffith
- Project: A Comparison of Stellar and Gas-Phase Chemical Abundances in Dusty Early-Type Galaxies
- Publications: Griffith, Martini, and Conroy (2018)
- Whereabouts: Graduate student at Ohio State (Advisor: D.H. Weinberg)
- Suk Sien Tie
- Thesis: Lyman-alpha Forest Cosmology with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
- Publications: Tie et al. 2017, 2019
- Graduation: 2020 (Advisors: P. Martini and D.H. Weinberg)
- Whereabouts: Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Santa Barbara
Postdocs and Visitors
- Gregory Sivakoff
- Project: AGN in Nearby Groups and Clusters
- Publication: Sivakoff et al. (2008)
- Whereabouts: Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Alberta
- Ramiro Simões Lopes
- Project: The Dust-AGN Connection in Early-Type Galaxies
- Publication: Simões Lopes et al. (2007)
- Whereabouts: Working in Brazil
- Ashley Ross
- Project: Commissioning Instrument for DESI
- Publication: Ross et al. (2018)
- Whereabouts: Research Scientist at Ohio State
- Debopam Som (co-advised with Smita Mathur, David Weinberg)
- Project: 3-pt Correlation Function of the Lyman Alpha Forest
- Whereabouts: Staff Scientist at STScI
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