Curriculum Vitae
CV
(updated Dec 2025)
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2025-present NASA Hubble Fellow, CU Boulder
2022-2025 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, CU Boulder
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June 2022 Ph.D. Astronomy, The Ohio State University
Advisors: Jennifer Johnson and David Weinberg
August 2019 M.S., Astronomy, The Ohio State University
August 2017 B.A. Physics & Theatre with honors, Grinnell College
Advisors: Eliza Kempton and Justin Thomas
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2025 NASA Hubble Fellowship
2022 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship
2022 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (Ohio State)
2021 Physics Department Award for Exceptional Mentoring (Ohio State)
2021 Presidential Fellowship (Ohio State)
2021 Graduate Associate Leadership Award (Ohio State)
2020 Ann S. Tuttle Citizenship Award (Ohio State)
2017 University Fellowship (Ohio State)
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2025 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award (Co-PI with Juna Kollmeier: $90,000)
SDSS On A Sphere: High Resolution Visualizations for SDSS-V
2025 NASA Hubble Fellowship (Science Lead with PI Jeremy Darling: ~ $450,000)
Beyond Mg and Fe: Exploring Detailed Nucleosynthetic Patterns
2022 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (PI:$320,000)
Galactic Archaeology: Constraining the Origin of the Elements with Empirical and Theoretical Supernova Yields
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Co-PI with Tawny Sit” “Characterizing the Multi-element Abundance Dispersion of the Milky Way Disk” Large Binocular Observatory/PEPSI, 22 hours (2025)
PI: “Follow-up Spectroscopy of Age Outliers in [alpha/Fe] vs. [Fe/H]” Apache Point Observatory 3.5m/ARCES, 3 half nights (2024)
PI: “Probing the Intrinsic Abundance Dispersion of Low Metallicity Stars in the Milky Way” Large Binocular Telescope/PEPSI, 21 hours (2021)
PI: “Probing the Intrinsic Abundance Dispersion of Low Metallicity Stars in the Milky Way - Pilot Study” Large Binocular Telescope/PEPSI, 4.25 hours (2020)
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Undergraduate Research Mentorship
2023-present Polly Frazer, New York University; Research identifying mass transfer candidates
2024-present Marissa Blum, The University of Colorado Boulder; Research determining heavy element abundances of stars
Astronomy Mentorship Program for Upcoming Postdocs
2025-present Wenjun Chang, University of California Riverside
2025-present Christopher Lam, University of Florida
2024-2025 Jillian Rastinejad, The University of Chicago
2023-2024 Alison Crisp, Louisiana State University
2023-2024 Pinchen Fang, Penn State
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Instructor, Astronomy & Physics Departments, Ohio State
2021 Astronomy Data Analysis (GE & Non-Major)
2018-21 Polaris Mentorship Course (Major)
Teaching Assistant, Astronomy Department, Ohio State
2020 Astronomy Data Analysis (GE & Non-Major)
2019 Methods of Astronomical Observation & Data Analysis (Major)
2019 Planetarium TA
2018 From Planets to the Cosmos Lab (GE & Non-Major)
2018 Cosmology: The History of the Universe (GE & Non-Major)
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Major Contributions
2025-present SDSS-V Planetarium Visualization Development
2023-present Access Network Core Organizer
2022-present Committee On Inclusion in SDSS co-chair (SDSS-V)
2023-2025 AMP-UP Graduate Student Mentor
2025 SOC Chair SDSS Collaboration Meeting
2018-2022 Polaris Leadership Member, Ohio State (~$40k of yearly funding)
2018-2022 Planetarium Presenter, Ohio State
Other Contributions
2025 Astronomy on Tap, Boulder Speaker
2025 NASA Reviewer
2023, 2025 AAS Chambliss Poster Judge
2024 Faculty and Student Teams in SDSS Mentorship Organizer
2024 Fiske Planetarium Show Development
2024 PASA Reviewer
2022, 2024 Eastwood Schools Astronomy Presenter
2019, 2024 Wood County Library Summer Program Presenter
2023 Friday Lunch Seminar Organizing Committee (CU Boulder)
2023 AAS Chambliss Poster Judge
2021-2022 Graduate Student Representative
2021-2022 Ohio State Graduate Student Peer Mentor
2019-2022 OSU Astronomy Graduate Admissions Visit Organizer
2021 Guest on “Guess Who” for the Ohio State STEM Impact Collaborative
2021 URSA Summer Program Volunteer
2018-2020 Polaris Mentor
2018-2019 Upper Arlington Library Summer Series Volunteer
2018-2019 OSU Star Party Volunteer
2017-2019 Friends of Astronomy and Astrophysics Lunch Volunteer
2017-2019 Breakfast of Science Champions Volunteer/Organizer
2019 APIRE Summer Camp Activity Leader
2019 COSI City-Wide Star Party Volunteer
2018 Young Scholars Program Physics Volunteer
2018 Clippers Baseball Astronomy Night Volunteer
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Oct 2024 Apache Point Observatory 3.5m (ARCES) — 3 half nights
Sept 2024 Apache Point Observatory 3.5m (ARCES & KOSMOS) — 2 half nights
March 2022 Large Binocular Telescope (LBC & MODS & PEPSI) — 2 nights
June 2018 Large Binocular Telescope (LBC & MODS)— 4 nights
April 2017 Grant Gale Observatory — 5 nights
July 2016 Wyoming Infrared Observatory — 19 nights
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Invited Talks
Sept. 2025 UT Austin, Bash-Fest Symposium
Feb. 2025 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Science Speaker Series
Feb. 2025 UC Davis, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Dec. 2025 NMSU, Astronomy Colloquium
Oct. 2024 CITA, Astrophysics Seminar
July 2024 Max Plank Institute for Astronomy, Galaxy Hour
April 2024 The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Large Binocular Telescope
Feb 2024 Texas A&M, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Nov 2023 Penn State, Astronomy Colloquium
Nov 2023 Denver University, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Oct 2023 University of Alabama Huntsville, Frontiers in Science Class
April 2023 University of Wyoming, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
April 2023 KU Leuven, SDSS/IReNA Science Festival
Oct. 2022 UC Berkley, Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminar
Sept. 2022 University of Colorado Boulder, Lunch Seminar
May 2022 Carnegie Observatories, Lunch Talk
Nov. 2021 University of Notre Dame, Astronomy Seminar
July 2021 GALAH Science Meeting
Nov. 2019 Wooster College, Physics Colloquium
Contributed Talks & Posters
Oct. 2025 NHFP Symposium
June 2025 SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting, COINS Plenary
Jan. 2025 AAS Conference
Jan. 2025 NSF AAPF Symposium
Nov. 2024 IAU Symposium on Stellar Populations in the Milky Way (Poster)
July 2024 David H. Weinberg Fest
June 2024 SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting, COINS Plenary
Jan. 2024 AAS Conference (Poster)
Jan. 2024 NSF AAPF Symposium
July 2023 SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting
July 2023 SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting, COINS Plenary
Jan. 2023 AAS Conference, Seatle Washington
Jan. 2023 NSF AAPF Symposium
Nov. 2022 SDSS-V Science Festival, COINS Plenary
Sept. 2021 Ohio State CCAPP Seminar
Aug. 2021 SDSS-IV/V Collaboration Meeting
June 2020 SDSS-IV/V Collaboration Meeting
Jan. 2017 AAS Conference, Grapevine Texas (Poster)
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27 total, 9 first author, 1 student-led, ADS library
As of December 2025, these works have 1709 citations and an h-index of 14. My name in the list below is bolded and directly supervised students’ names are marked with *.
27. Griffith, E.J., *Blum, M., Weinberg, D.H., and 4 co-authors
“Untangling the Sources of Abundance Dispersion in Low-Metallicity Stars II: Neutron Capture Elements”
2025, Submitted to ApJ; arXiv:
26. *Frazer, P., Griffith, E.J., Hoog, D.W., Sinha, A., Tayar,J.
“Evolved stars with inconsistent age estimates: Abundance outliers or mass transfer products?”
2025, Submitted to ApJ; arXiv:2510.26927
25. Sit, T., Weinberg, D.H., and Griffith, E.J.
"On the Origin of Abundance Variations in the Milky Way's High-α Plateau"
2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 994, 1; arXiv:2503.07738
24. Manea, C., Ness, M., Hawkins, K., and 9 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"Optical Spectroscopy Reveals Hidden Neutron-capture Elemental Abundance Differences among APOGEE-identified Chemical Doppelgängers"
2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 993, 1; arXiv:2508.16717
23. Rampalli, R., Johnson, J.W., Ness, M.K., and 5 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"A Galactic Perspective on the (Unremarkable) Relative Refractory Depletion Observed in the Sun"
2025, Submitted to ApJ; arXiv:2509.03577
22. Stone-Martinez, A., Holtzman, J.A., Lu, Y., and 5 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"StarFlow: Leveraging Normalizing Flows for Stellar Age Estimation in SDSS-V DR19"
2025, The Astronomical Journal, 170, 2; arXiv:2503.03138
21. Johnson, J.W., Weinberg, D.H., Blanc, G.A., and 11 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"The Milky Way Radial Metallicity Gradient as an Equilibrium Phenomenon: Why Old Stars Are Metal Rich"
2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 988, 1; arXiv:2410.13256
20. SDSS Collaboration, and 199 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
2025, Submitted to ApJ; arXiv:2507.07093
19. Griffith, E.J., Hogg, D.W., Hasselquist, S., and 5 co-authors
"Many Elements Matter: Detailed Abundance Patterns Reveal Star Formation and Enrichment Differences among Milky Way Structural Components"
2025, The Astronomical Journal, 169, 5; arXiv:2410.22121
18. Hasselquist, S., Hayes, C.R., Griffith, E.J., and 4 co-authors
"Two-process Model and Residual Abundance Analysis of the Milky Way Massive Satellites"
2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 2; arXiv:2408.10393
17. Mead, J., Ness, M., Andersson, E., Griffith, E.J., and Horta, D.
"Measuring Dwarf Galaxy Intrinsic Abundance Scatter with Mid-resolution Spectroscopic Surveys: Calibrating APOGEE Abundance Errors"
2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 2; arXiv:2403.04833
16. Weinberg, D.H., Griffith, E.J., Johnson, J.W., and Thompson, T.A.
"The Scale of Stellar Yields: Implications of the Measured Mean Iron Yield of Core Collapse Supernovae"
2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 973, 2; arXiv:2309.05719
15. Phillips, C.L., Faherty, J.K., Burningham, B., and 12 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"Retrieving Young Cloudy L Dwarfs: A Nearby Planetary-mass Companion BD+60 1417B and its Isolated Red Twin W0047"
2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 972, 2; arXiv:2407.01694
14. Griffith, E.J., Hogg, D.W., Dalcanton, J.J., and 4 co-authors
"KPM: A Flexible and Data-driven K-process Model for Nucleosynthesis"
2024, The Astronomical Journal, 167, 3; arXiv:2307.05691
13. Ji, A.P., Curtis, S., Storm, N., and 39 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"Spectacular Nucleosynthesis from Early Massive Stars"
2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 961, 2; arXiv:2401.02484
12. Johnson, J.W., Weinberg, D.H., Vincenzo, F., Bird, J.C., and Griffith, E.J.
"Empirical constraints on the nucleosynthesis of nitrogen"
2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520, 1; arXiv:2202.04666
11. Griffith, E.J., Johnson, J.A., Weinberg, D.H., and 4 co-authors
"Untangling the Sources of Abundance Dispersion in Low-metallicity Stars"
2023, The Astrophysical Journal, 944, 1; arXiv:2210.01821
10. Weinberg, D.H., Holtzman, J.A., Johnson, J.A., and 33 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a 2-process Model and Residual Abundances"
2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 260, 2; arXiv:2108.08860
9. Griffith, E.J., Weinberg, D.H., Buder, S., and 3 co-authors
"Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations"
2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 931, 1; arXiv:2110.06240
8. Abdurro’uf, Accetta, K., Aerts, C., and 197 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data"
2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 259, 2; arXiv:2112.02026
7. Vincenzo, F., Thompson, T.A., Weinberg, D.H., Griffith, E.J., and two co-authors
"Nucleosynthesis signatures of neutrino-driven winds from proto-neutron stars: a perspective from chemical evolution models"
2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 3; arXiv:2102.04920
6. Johnson, J.W., Weinberg, D.H., Vincenzo, F., and 6 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model"
2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 3; arXiv:2103.09838
5. Griffith, E.J., Sukhbold, T., Weinberg, D.H., and two co-authors
"The Impact of Black Hole Formation on Population-averaged Supernova Yields"
2021, The Astrophysical Journal, 921, 1; arXiv:2103.09837
4. Vincenzo, F., Weinberg, D.H., Montalbán, J., and 8 co-authors incl. Griffith, E.J.
"CNO dredge-up in a sample of APOGEE/Kepler red giants: Tests of stellar models and Galactic evolutionary trends of N/O and C/N"
2021, arXiv e-prints; arXiv:2106.03912
3. Griffith, E., Weinberg, D.H., Johnson, J.A., and 9 co-authors
"The Similarity of Abundance Ratio Trends and Nucleosynthetic Patterns in the Milky Way Disk and Bulge"
2021, The Astrophysical Journal, 909, 1; arXiv:2009.05063
2. Griffith, E., Johnson, J.A., and Weinberg, D.H.
"Abundance Ratios in GALAH DR2 and Their Implications for Nucleosynthesis"
2019, The Astrophysical Journal, 886, 2; arXiv:1908.06113
1. Griffith, E., Martini, P., and Conroy, C.
"A comparison of stellar and gas-phase chemical abundances in dusty early-type galaxies"
2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484, 1; arXiv:1809.05114
Education Publications
1. Griffith, E. J. and Lee, G.; and 13 co-authors.
“A Starter Kit for Diversity-Oriented Communities for Undergraduates: Near-Peer Mentorship Programs”
2025, arXiv:2501.05524