NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Hawaiʻ i
Aloha kāua! I’m Joel Ong, a Singaporean astrophysicist. I study various aspects of stellar astrophysics using asteroseismology — the analysis and interpretation of the normal modes of oscillations in stars. My research programme combines new developments in analytic technique with the extensive use of large-scale astronomical surveys, and cutting-edge spectroscopic instrumentation.
I am currently a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻ i at Mānoa, where I have been since September 2022 — the first Singaporean to have been awarded a Hubble Fellowship. Before this, I earned a PhD in Astronomy from Yale University, doing research under the supervision of Profs. Sarbani Basu and Debra Fischer. Before that, I received my BSc (Hons) from the National University of Singapore, in Physics (with a specialisation in Astrophysics), supervised by A/P Kuldip Singh.
I am generally happy to chat with interested students — please reach
out to me at \(\texttt{j}\texttt{o}\texttt{e}\texttt{l}\texttt{o}\texttt{n}\texttt{g}\)@hawaii.edu.