Welcome!

Hi! I am a 2nd year PhD student and anNSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory. I work with Dr. Eiichi Egami to explore the dust obscured Universe with JWST and ALMA. I am currently leading an ALMA 2mm survey of the 60 lensing fields observed by the JWST Cycle 4 treasury program VENUS to study dusty star forming galaxies in the early universe.

Before moving to Tucson, I was a Fulbright Student at the Canadian Insitute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Under the supervision of Professor Maya Fishbach, I studied how to use gravitational waves to learn about cosmology. In particular, I worked to improve methodologies in the “dark siren” method, a way of combining data from gravitational wave detections and galaxy catalogs to measure the local expansion rate of the Universe.

I completed my Bachelor’s in Astronomy & Physics at Boston University. During my undergrad, my research spanned multiple topics and disciplines. I studied the pulsations of white dwarf stars observed by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. As an REU student at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, I wrote software to test different formation and evolution mechanisms of small exoplanets. I even spent six months at CERN using machine learning to quantify the efficiency of proposed detector upgrades for ATLAS.