Jessica Metzger

Articles/preprints

• Exceptions to the Ratchet Principle in active and passive stochastic dynamics - Metzger, J. et al. 2025. Arxiv preprint 2503.11902.
• Revisiting the Ratchet Principle: When Hidden Symmetries Prevent Steady Currents - Metzger, J. et al. 2024. Arxiv preprint 2412.07851.
• Low-speed Impacts into Ice–Dust Granular Mixtures - Brisset, J. et al. 2022. The Planetary Science Journal 3 (7), 176.
• Gas and Cosmic-Ray Properties in the MBM 53, 54, and 55 Molecular Clouds and the Pegasus Loop as Revealed by HI Line Profiles, Dust, and Gamma-Ray Data - Mizuno, T. et al. 2022. The Astrophysical Journal 935 (2), 97. (arxiv preprint)
• Multi-Particle Collisions in Microgravity: Coefficient of Restitution and Sticking Threshold for Systems of Mm-Sized Particles - Brisset, J. et al. 2019. Astronomy & Astrophysics 631, A35. (arxiv preprint)
• HOW MANY KILONOVAE CAN BE FOUND IN PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SURVEY DATASETS? - Scolnic, D. et al. 2018. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 852 (1), L3. (arxiv preprint)

Misc. research and expository papers

• A consumer-resource model of phylogenetic diversification - 8.592 (Statistical physics in biology) final project. Dec 2024.
• Phase separation and detailed balance violation in a two-temperature system - 8.334 (Statistical physics of fields) final project. May 2023.
• Droplet spreading in a chiral active fluid - Bachelor's thesis, done in the Irvine Lab at UChicago.
• Complex Dynamics and Renormalization - PHYS 252 (nonlinear dynamics, audited) final. May 2021.
• Phase transitions in Lattice systems - UChicago 2020 Math REU. August 2020.
• Thermodynamic formalism - MATH 276 (dynamical systems) final. May 2020.
• Complex Dynamics - MATH 270 (complex variables) final. May 2019

Posters

• Exceptions to the Ratchet Principle: Rectification of Inhomogeneous Fluctuations - Research from the 2nd year of my PhD. Presented in the Summer of 2024.
• Ratchet Currents in Activity Landscapes - Research from the 1st year of my PhD. Presented in the Summer of 2023.
• Droplet Spreading in a Chiral Active Fluid - Bachelor's thesis, done in the Irvine lab at UChicago. May 2022.
• Modeling the Diffuse Gamma ray Spectrum with Cosmic Rays - Summer research internship with Tsunefumi Mizuno at the Hiroshima University Astrophysics department. September 2019.
• A Neutrinosphere Model for Kilonova Photometry - Summer research internship with James Annis, with the Dark Energy Survey at Fermilab. August 2018.

Magazine articles

• Research for human rights abuses: how MIT breaks its own rules. - Guest Column, The Tech at MIT. Oct. 3, 2024.
• Disorder, Instability, and Traffic Jams: An Inquiry with Dr. Sidney Nagel. - Scientia, The Triple Helix at UChicago. Winter 2021
• A Symphony of Strings: An Inquiry with Professor Savdeep Sethi. - Scientia, The Triple Helix at UChicago. Winter 2020.
• Neutron Star Collisions & Kilonova Modeling. - Scientia, The Triple Helix at UChicago. Winter 2019.
• Saving Earth from a Killer Asteroid - Spectrum, The Triple Helix at UChicago. Winter 2019.

Contact

Office: MIT 6C-431

Email: jessmetz@mit.edu

Misc.

• The background of this page is a collage made by my sister Olivia @liv.m.art
• Working scihub url