About

Thomas W.-S. Holoien, Ph.D.

I am a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena. I completed my Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2017 at The Ohio State University working with Professors Kris Stanek and Chris Kochanek, and I am a core member of the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN).

I am primarily interested in leveraging "big data" survey projects like ASAS-SN to study tidal disruption events, supernovae, and other transient events, and in 2014 I was awarded the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for my work on ASAS-SN. I have also worked with researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to develop code for sampling realistic supernovae for a given set of host galaxy properties. For more about my research, please see the research section of my web page.

See below for information about the positions I have held, information about my education, and a link to my CV.

Positions Held

  • NHFP Einstein Fellow, 2020-now
    Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA
  • Carnegie Postoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020
    Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA

Education

  • Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2017
    Thesis: Stellar Death in the Nearby Universe
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • M.S. in Astronomy, 2016
    The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • B.S. in Astrophysics with Highest Honors, 2013
    Thesis: Optical and Near-Infrared Observations of 7 High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae
    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • B.A. in East Asian Studies (Japan), 2008
    Minor in Computer Science
    Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Full Curriculum Vitae