ABOUT ME

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University in the department of Physics and Astronomy.

I work with Professor Wolfgang Kerzendorf and the Kerzendorf Group modeling stars and searching for surviving companions of type Ia supernovae to learn about their progenitor systems and test different progenitor theories. I use statistical methods capitalizing on the revolutionary new GAIA mission as well as archival Hubble data to investigate the stellar populations in supernova remnants. I work at the intersection of observation and theory, making detailed models of stellar atmospheres to simulate escaping stellar light and then fitting those models to observations to learn about the structure and composition of stars.
I am the primarily developer on the open-source STARDIS code, which solves the radiative transfer equation in the outer layers of a star to simulate light passing through it.

Outside of research, I founded and continue to help run Michigan State's astrophysics journal club, Astro Coffee! We meet twice a week to discuss new papers posted on Arxiv and recent developments in astrophysics. We have hybrid in person/virtual meetings that are open to anybody that would like to join.

In my free time I like to play racquetball, bike, longboard, and snowboard. I also love competition and all sorts of games, from board games, to videogames, to card games like magic the gathering.

Contrary to popular belief I've been outside once or twice, but it hasn't always gone too well.