About Me
My name is Josh Machado. I'm a 2nd year astronomy PhD student at The Ohio State University. I work with Dr. Adam Leroy as a member of the Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) team. I study the building blocks of galaxies - giant molecular clouds (GMCs). Specifically, I study how GMCs are distributed across nearby galaxies. This allows us to understand where galaxies are forming stars and how the properties of the galaxies themselves influence this process.
I am also an LSSTc Data Science Fellow. As part of this program, I have the privelege of spending a few weeks every year learning new data science and machine learning techniques used at the cutting edge of astronomy research.