Nick Marston
Nick Marston /nɪk/ /maɹztən/

Post-Bac Researcher

University of Wisconsin-Madison

About Me

I’m a post-baccalaureate Astronomy & Physics researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I’m interested in exoplanet formation, detection, and characterization, the application of computational methods to study a variety of astrophysical phenomena, and stellar astronomy. My work includes variable star analysis using Kepler mission data for the open cluster NGC 6819, using computational methods to study of the unusually low density “super-puff” planets, and developing data processing tools and pipelines for these projects. I graduated in 2025 with my B.S. in Physics, Astronomy-Physics, and Scandinavian Studies, with Certificates in Italian and European Studies.

Outside of my research, I enjoy Ultimate Frisbee, playing the Uilleann pipes, and backpacking around the world.

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Interests
  • Exoplanets
  • Habitable Worlds
  • Black Hole Physics
  • Computational Astrophysics
Education

  • B.S. in Astronomy-Physics, Physics, Scandinavian Studies

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • A.A.S. in Cyber Security

    Saint Paul College

Featured Work
Exosystem tools
Recent Publications
Melinda Soares-Furtado, Rianna Kuenzi, Rachel Lee McClure, Nicholas T Marston, Evan Linck, Robert D. Mathieu, Andrew Vanderburg, Joel D. Hartman, Kyle Cudworth, Robert Gagliano, Thomas Jacobs, Martti H. Kristiansen, Mark Omohundro, Hans Martin Schwengeler, (In Prep.) (2025). Kepler Image-Subtracted Light Curves and Variable Star Catalog of NGC 6819.
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Melinda Soares-Furtado, Mary Anne Limbach, Andrew Vanderburg, John Bally, Juliette Becker, Anna L. Rosen, Luke G. Bouma, Johanna M. Vos, Steve B. Howell, Thomas G. Beatty, William M. J. Best, Anne Marie Cody, Adam Distler, Elena D'Onghia, René Heller, Brandon S. Hensley, Natalie R. Hinkel, Brian Jackson, Marina Kounkel, Adam Kraus, Andrew W. Mann, Nicholas T. Marston, Massimo Robberto, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Jason H. Steffen, Johanna K. Teske, Richard Townsend, Ricardo Yarza, Allison Youngblood (2024). The TEMPO Survey II: Science Cases Leveraged from a Proposed 30-Day Time Domain Survey of the Orion Nebula with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. arXiv.
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