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(Nov 2019)

Stephanie H Ho

Brief CV (html)

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, with Astrophysics Emphasis | 2013 - 2019

University of California, Santa Barbara

Advisor: Prof. Crystal L. Martin

Thesis: How Do Galaxies Get Their Gas?

B.Sc. in Physics/Enrichment Stream in Theoretical Physics | 2009 - 2013

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Reciprocity student of UC Education Abroad Program | 2011 - 2012

University of California, Santa Barbara

Positions Held &
Academic Appointments

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow  | 2022 - present

Host Institution: New Mexico State University

Scientific Advisor: Prof. Christopher W. Churchill

Postdoctoral Research Associate | 2019 - 2022

Texas A&M University

Supervisor: Prof. Robert C. Kennicutt Jr.

Graduate Student Researcher | 2013 - 2019

University of California, Santa Barbara

Teaching Assistant | 2013 - 2015, 2016 - 2017, 2019

University of California, Santa Barbara

Grants, Honors and Awards

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship | NSF | 2022 - present

HST Cycle 29, GO-16742: 17 Orbits | NASA/STScI | 2022 - 2025

HST Cycle 27, GO-15866: 25 Orbits | NASA/STScI | 2020 - 2023

Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize (Honorable Mention) | AAS Winter Meeting | 2019

UC LEADS Program Fellowship (Mentoring) | UC Santa Barbara | 2018, 2019

Graduate Opportunity Fellowship | UC Santa Barbara | 2017 - 2018

Doctoral Student Travel Grant | UC Santa Barbara | 2017 - 2018

Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship | UC Santa Barbara | 2015 - 2016

Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research | American Physical Society | 2015

Worster Summer Research Fellowship (Mentoring) | UC Santa Barbara | 2014, 2016

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award | UC Santa Barbara | 2014 - 2015

Yzurdiaga Graduate Fellowship | UC Santa Barbara | 2013 - 2014

Herbert P. Broida Fellowship | UC Santa Barbara | 2013 - 2014

Yasumoto International Exchange Scholarship | CUHK | 2011

Publications

​(In reverse chronological order; updated: Aug 22, 2024 from ADS)

1st (and 2nd) author publications = 5 (6) with 187 (264) citations

Total publications = 7 [citations: 336]; h-index = 7

  • Sameer, Charlton, J. C., Wakker, B. P., Kacprzak, G. G., Nielsen, N. M., Churchill, C. W., Richter, P., Muzahid, S., Ho, S. H., Nateghi, H., Rosenwasser, B.,         Narayanan, A. & Ganguly, R., Cloud-by-cloud multiphase investigation of the circumgalactic medium of low-redshift galaxies.  2024, MNRAS, 530, 3827 [ADS]

  • Ho, S. H., Martin, C. L. & Schaye, J., How Identifying Circumgalactic Gas by Line-of-sight Velocity instead of the Location in 3D Space Affects O VI Measurements.  2021, ApJ, 923, 137. [ADS] 

  • Ho, S. H., Martin, C. L. & Schaye, J., Morphological and Rotation Structures of Circumgalactic Mg II Gas in the EAGLE Simulation and the Dependence on Galaxy Properties.  2020, ApJ, 904, 76. [ADS] 

  • Ho, S. H. & Martin, C. L., Resolving 3D Disk Orientation Using High-resolution Images: New Constraints on Circumgalactic Gas Inflows.  2020, ApJ, 888, 14 [ADS]

  • Martin, C. L., Ho, S. H., Kacprzak, G. G. & Churchill, C. W., Kinematics of Circumgalactic Gas: Feeding and Feedback.  2019, ApJ, 878, 84 [ADS]

  • Ho, S. H., Martin, C. L. & Turner, M. L., How Gas Accretion Feeds Galactic Disks.   2019, ApJ, 875, 54 [ADS]

  • Ho, S. H., Martin, C. L., Kacprzak, G. G. & Churchill, C. W., Quasar Probing Galaxies: Signatures of Gas Accretion at Redshift z ≈ 0.2.  2017, ApJ, 835, 267 [ADS]

  • Kacprzak, G. G., Martin, C. L., Bouché, N., Churchill, C. W., Cooke, J., LeReun, A., Schroetter, I., Ho, S. H. & Klimek, E.  2014, New Perspective on Galaxy Outflows from the First Detection of Both Intrinsic and Traverse Metal-line Absorption.  2014, ApJL, 792, L12 [ADS]

Approved Proposals
As Principle Investigator:
  • Apache Point Observatory, KOSMOS (2023 & 2024: 12 half-nights)Resolving the 3D Orientation of Galactic Disks: New Constraints on Circumgalactic Gas Flow

  • HST, Cycle 29, 17 orbits (HST-GO-16742): Resolving the 3D Orientation of Galactic Disks: New Constraints on Circumgalactic Gas Flow

  • VLA, 2020A, 36 hours awarded (VLA/20A-400): HI Observations of z=0.2 Galaxies with Corotating Circumgalactic Gas

  • HST, Cycle 27, 25 orbits (HST-GO-15866): Angular Momentum of the Warm-Hot Circumgalactic Medium

  • Gemini Observatory, 2015A, 7.2 hours (GN-2015A-Q-60): Studying Galaxy Disk Structures and its Relation with Gas Accretion in z=0.15-0.3 Galaxies

As Co-Investigator:
  • MMT, Red Channel Spectrograph, 2021A, 1 night, PI: Rob Kennicutt 

  • MMT, Red Channel Spectrograph, 2020A, 1 night, PI: Rob Kennicutt

  • HST, Cycle 24, 10 orbits (HST-GO-15754), PI: Crystal Martin

  • Keck II, NIRC2/LGSAO, 2017A, 1 night, PI: Crystal Martin

  • Keck II, NIRC2/LGSAO, 2016B, 1 night, PI: Crystal Martin

  • Keck I, LRIS, 2015A, 2 nights, PI: Crystal Martin

  • Keck I, LRIS, 2014A, 2 nights, PI: Crystal Martin

Service & Outreach
(selected)

Referee for ApJ, MNRAS, A&A, and Nature Astronomy | 2019 - present

Co-organizer, Astronomy On Tap - Las Cruces, NM | 2023 - present

Discussion Panelist, Cycle 32 HST Proposals, STScI | May - June 2024

External Panelist, Cycle 31 HST Proposals, STScI | Apr - June 2023

Search Committee, Tombaugh Postdoctoral Fellowship, NMSU | Feb - Apr 2023

Panelist, Cycle 30 HST Proposals, STScI | Apr - June 2022

Co-organizer, Astronomy Seminar, Texas A&M University | 2019 - 2022

Co-organizer, Astrosymposium, Texas A&M University | Aug 2020

External Reviewer, Cycle 28 Hubble Space Telescope Proposals | Mar - Apr 2020

Panelist, APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics | Jan 2019

Graduate Mentor, UC LEADS Program, UC Santa Barbara | 2018, 2019

Graduate Research Mentor, Worster Research Fellowship Program, UCSB | 2014, 2016

Co-organizer, Physics Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, UCSB | 2016

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