Jarrett L. Johnson

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In January 2012 I presented our recent research on supermassive star formation at the 219th AAS meeting in Austin, TX. I am contributing a chapter on the theory of the formation of the first galaxies to an upcoming book in the Springer/Astrophysics and Space Science Library series. A preprint of the chapter is available here. In August 2011 I began a Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology group at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. In June 2011 I participated in the First Galaxies workshop organized by our research group. See all of the participants here. In July 2010 I presented our work on early black holes at the workshop What drives the growth of black holes? at Durham University. In March 2010 I presented at the The First Stars and Galaxies conference at University of Texas at Austin. See my contribution to the proceedings, Observational Signatures of the First Galaxies. Since the fall of 2009 I have been collaborating with other TMoX group members to study the effects of radiation emitted by the first generations of stars in the First Billion Years project. In May 2009 I completed my Ph.D. in Astronomy at UT Austin, where I was a member of the new Texas Cosmology Center. In August 2008 our simulation of radiation from the first stars appeared in the New York Times. In December 2007 our work on Population III star formation in the assembly of the first galaxies was reported by the New Scientist.