About Me

Hi there! 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’m currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Sydney, and was previously a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻ i at Mānoa — the first Singaporean to have been awarded a Hubble Fellowship. I earned my 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 \(\texttt{j}\texttt{o}\texttt{e}\texttt{l}\texttt{.}\texttt{o}\texttt{n}\texttt{g}\)@sydney.edu.au.