curriculum vitae (abridged)
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overview

I am set to defend my doctoral thesis in early Summer of 2027, and am on the job market for a postdoc position starting ~Fall of 2027. This page is under construction right now (9/22), but I'll get right back on it as soon as I am done with my current list of tasks. Check back in real soon!

education

2016-2019 B.A. in Physics (concentration in Astronomy) Northwestern University Evanston, IL
  • Minor in Legal Studies
  • Research assistant at CIERA (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics)
  • Telescope Operator at Dearborn Observatory
2020-2027 M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics (concentration in Astrophysics) Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
  • Thesis: Supermassive Black Hole Binaries as Multimessenger Sources:
    X-ray Reflection Properties of Gravitational Wave Targets
  • Relevant classes: Gravity, Radiative Processes, High-Energy Astrophysics,
    Cosmology, Computational Astrophysics, Math Methods

research experience

2021-2027 Graduate Research Assistant Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
  • X-ray reflection spectroscopy and supermassive black hole binaries
  • With Tamara Bogdanović and David Ballantyne
2019-2020 Post-Baccalaureate Researcher (and before that, Undergrad Researcher) Northwestern University Evanston, IL
  • Galactic compact binary population synthesis, LISA sensitivity curve
  • With Shane Larson and Katie Breivik
2019 Summer Student CERN Meyrin, Switzerland
  • Particle tracking simulations, LHC luminosity loss
  • With Giovanni Iadarola