
Graduate Student
Office: 401 Bryant Space Science Center
Phone: (352) 294–1835
Fax: (352) 392–5089
Email: ajtownsend@ufl.edu
Homepage: astro.ufl.edu/~ajtownsend/
Educational Background
- M.Sc., Astronomy, University of Florida, 2011
- B.Sc., Astrophysics & Applied Math, University of New Mexico, 2008
Areas of Specialty
Infrared variability identfication of AGN.
Research Interests
Extragalactic astronomy and AGN; observational astronomy.
Biography
I am currently a graduate student at the University of Florida. I graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2004, and attended the University of New Mexico as an undergraduate student, where I got my B.Sc. in Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics in 2008. I received my MS in Astronomy in 2011 from the University of Florida. I enjoy teaching and working with telescopes.