The Host Galaxies of Wide-Separation Lensed Quasars -- A. P. Cloonan et al. 2025
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Welcome!
I am a third-year PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where my PhD advisor is Prof. Alexandra Pope. I recently completed my Initial Research Project (Master's thesis equivalent) at UMass Amherst with Profs. Kate Whitaker and Sinclaire Manning. Before that, I did my undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where I majored in Astrophysics and was advised by Prof. Mike Gladders.
My current research projects are primarily centered around the formation, growth, and surrounding interstellar environments of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), as well as their co-evolution in galaxies. I'm interested in both cosmological probes of galaxy/BH populations and in detailed studies of the underlying physics. In both cases, we often study black holes during relatively short but crucial periods of active accretion, a phenomenon known as active galactic nuclei (AGN).
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Recent Papers
Below are some highlights of my recent work. You may find all papers I've led or co-authored in the public ADS library linked below or by searching my ORCID.
Introducing the PANORAMIC Survey -- C. C. Williams et al. (incl. APC) 2025
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I'm more than happy to talk about research and astrophysics more broadly. Feel free to reach out via email.