Biomedical and Physical Sciences
567 Wilson Rd., Room 3246
East Lansing, 48823 MI
Joshua V.
Shields
Astrophysics Graduate Student
shield90 [at] msu [dot] edu
https://github.com/jvshields
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I'm Josh! I'm a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor Wolfgang Kerzendorf and the Kerzendorf Group modeling stars and searching for surviving companions of type Ia supernovae to learn about their progenitor systems and test different progenitor theories. I am a specialist in radiative transfer, and I use statistical methods capitalizing on the revolutionary new GAIA mission as well as archival Hubble data to investigate the stellar populations in supernova remnants. I work at the intersection of observation and theory, making detailed models of stellar atmospheres to simulate escaping stellar light and then fitting those models to observations to learn about the structure and composition of stars.
I am the primary developer on the open-source STARDIS code, which solves the radiative transfer equation in the outer layers of a star to simulate light passing through it.