Ian Chow
Astronomy Ph.D. Student
Welcome! I'm a first-year Astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, where I hold a Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGS-D) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). I work with Prof. Mario Jurić studying small bodies of the Solar System. My recent work has focused on characterizing near-Earth objects (NEOs), particularly Earth impactors, as asteroids in space and meteors in the atmosphere, using simulations, observation and statistical methods. I have worked on a variety of other topics in the past, including exoplanet dynamics, kinematics and chemodynamics of globular clusters, and dark matter modelling.
I previously held an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) at the University of Western Ontario, where I earned my Astronomy M.Sc. under the supervision of Prof. Peter Brown. Before that, I received an Honours B.Sc. Astronomy & Physics Specialist, Statistics Major, and Mathematics Minor at the University of Toronto, where I completed an Astronomy thesis supervised by Dr. Sam Hadden and Prof. Hanno Rein as well as a Statistics thesis supervised by Prof. Josh Speagle.
In my free time, I enjoy trivia (where I have competed at the ACF Nationals and Intercollegiate Championship quiz bowl tournaments), baseball, reading and writing fiction, sailing, going to concerts, and playing board games.
Read more about my past and present research or check out my other coding projects that I've worked on!
An up-to-date list of my publications can be found on the NASA ADS.
