Jonelle Walsh

I am originally from Massachusetts and received my BA in Physics from Bowdoin College in 2005. I earned my PhD in Physics from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. Following graduate school, I was awarded an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I held at the University of Texas at Austin for three years. I then joined Texas A&M University as a Mitchell Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and became a member of the Texas A&M faculty in the fall of 2017.

As an observational extragalactic astronomer, my research focuses on understanding the relationship between supermassive black holes and the galaxies that host them. I study the motions of stars and gas in the centers of nearby galaxies to learn how black holes grow and influence their surroundings. This work draws on data from high resolution observatories including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck and Gemini telescopes using adaptive optics, and the Atacama Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array. These observations are paired with computational models developed using advanced research computing resources.

Institutional Partnerships

• The Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy