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.