Peter

Senchyna

Peter Senchyna's work is centered on constraining the earliest generations of massive stars and the galaxies they shaped. To study these ancient times, Senchyna's work brings together observations of high-redshift galaxies caught in formation just after the Big Bang with deep observations of the nearby universe, including low-mass galaxies nearby that harbor short-lived massive stars and ionized gas under conditions approaching those that prevailed in the first half-billion years. Broadly, Senchyna is interested in the intersection between stellar and extragalactic astrophysics, and in leveraging observations across wavelengths (centered on rest-UV to optical spectroscopy) to improve our understanding of the most uncertain aspects of the evolution of and interplay between massive stars and galaxies.