Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer Johnson is the Henry L. Cox Professor of Astronomy and Vice Chair for Administration in the Department of Astronomy at The Ohio State University. She has been a faculty member since 2005 and leads observational astronomy research focused on stellar abundances, galactic evolution, and nucleocosmochronology.

Education:

• Ph.D., 1999, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California at Santa Cruz
• B.A., 1993, Physics, Carleton College

Research Interests: Johnson investigates the origin of elements through studies of metal-poor stars, abundance ratios in Galactic globular clusters, and the metallicity history of the Galactic bulge. She chairs the SDSS-III APOGEE survey, a major near-IR spectroscopic initiative mapping the Galaxy, and contributes to the SDSS SEGUE surveys' optical spectroscopy analyses.

Awards/Grants: No specific awards or grants listed in text.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Department of Astronomy's research groups, including Galactic Structure and Evolution, and chairs the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee.