rschisholm@wisc.edu
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
This website is where you can access my work. I like to write stories and poetry.
If you're here for my science, I am a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison studying astrophysics under Prof. Elena D'Onghia. My research interests broadly span dwarf galaxy structure and dynamics, primarily through the lens of theoretical tools such as cosmological simulations and analytic modeling. I am a member of the CLUES collaboration, and the SDSS collaboration.
You may download my CV here, and my code here.
Right now, I only have the one short story below. If you liked it,
please feel free to email me
dear-prudence.main@pm.me.
It would make my day to know that my writing has touched someone :)
If you know me irl and would like a printed copy, lmk.
Poetry is extemely personal, I have only posted those which I feel are more universal to human experience and are by nature less intimate. And as such, they are slightly edited from the original handwritting, primarily to make them more readable with less viscocity. I hope you still get something out of them, and encourage you to write poetry whenever and wherever the moment strikes. The pinnacles of creative expression are sometimes written on the backs of recipts.
Oh, Evangeline, written 24 july 2026, Amiens FR
Amsterdam Prose, written 10 july 2026, Amsterdam NL
Have You Played Chess Against Yourself?, written 17 jan 2026, Madison WI
The following is a list of several projects I'm working on, or have recently completed.
Where might the Large Magellanic Cloud's central supermassive blackhole lie?
Magellanic Cloud-analogs in a cosmological context.
You may reach me by email at rschisholm@wisc.edu.
My department page can be found here.
My Orcid ID is 0009-0002-9263-5574.