Abby Mintz

Hi, I'm Abby! I'm a fifth year graduate student at Princeton University where I'm advised by Professor Jenny Greene. I study star formation in low-mass galaxies from cosmic noon to the present-day Universe. Right now, I'm particularly interested in bursty star formation and finding novel ways to constrain the drivers of star-formation variability using photometry, spectroscopy, and particularly medium-band imaging of statistical samples of low-mass sources. My past work has included projects on metal-poor massive stars in local dwarf galaxies, young stellar objects within the Milky Way, and the circumgalactic medium of galaxies at cosmic noon. I completed my undergraduate degree in Astrophysics and Statistics & Data Science at Yale University, where I studied magnetic fields in the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex with Professor Héctor Arce.