Welcome

I am a fourth year graduate student in the Astronomy department and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at The Ohio State University. I am currently working with Professors Kris Stanek and Chris Kochanek on the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN).

I am primarily interested in leveraging "big data" survey projects like ASAS-SN to study supernovae and other transient events, and in 2014 I was awarded the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for my work on ASAS-SN. I have also worked with researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to develop code for sampling realistic supernovae for a given set of host galaxy properties. My code is currently being used to plant supernovae in simulated LSST data, and is available online.

To learn more about me and my research, please explore this website or contact me using the information below.

Contact Information

4000 McPherson Laboratory
140 West 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

tholoien [at] astronomy [dot] ohio-state [dot] edu

My software is available on my github page.