College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Astronomy
Department of Astronomy
Education
- Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1988, University of California Santa Cruz
- M.S., Astronomy, 1985, University of California Santa Cruz
- B.S., Physics, 1983, California Institute of Technology
Research Areas
- Astronomical Instrumentation
- Nebular Abundances in HII Regions
- Active Galactic Nuclei
- Exoplanets
Professional
- Curriculum vitae [PDF]
- Bibliography [PDF]
Teaching
- Astronomy 1101 From Planets to the Cosmos
- Astronomy 1102 From Planets to the Cosmos (online)
- Astronomy 1141 Life in the Universe
- Astronomy 2291 Basic Astrophysics and Planetary Astronomy
- Astronomy 2292 Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
Ohio State Astrophysics Series
A series of graduate and upper-level undergraduate textbooks being written under contract to Cambridge University Press. Editor in Chief and primary author is Barbara Ryden. I am the Technical Editor and co-author of the first volume, and I created the Jupyter notebooks for all original book figures. These notebooks are available on the Cambridge GitHub repository as book ancillaries.
- Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium (Volume 1), Ryden & Pogge – April 2021
- Stellar Structure and Evolution (Volume 2), Pinsonneault & Ryden – April 2023
- Celestial and Stellar Dynamics (Volume 3), Ryden – 2024
- Astrophysical Gas Dynamics (Volume 4), Ryden – 2025