Full CV available here (updated December 2024)
Education
University of Chicago October 2018 - present
PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Daniel Holz
University of Pennsylvania May 2018
BA Physics and Astronomy, departmental honors, magna cum laude
Fellowships
William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship 2024-2025
University of Chicago
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2020-2025
National Science Foundation
Data Science for Energy and Environmental Research Fellowship 2019-2022
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship
McCormick Graduate Fellowship 2018-2019
University of Chicago
Invited Academic Talks
Challenges and Future Perspectives in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy October 2024
Population studies of gravitational wave sources
Physics and Astrophysics at the Extreme (PAX) July 2024
Astrophysical Populations for Next-Generation GW Detectors (panel)
MIT General Relativity Tea Talk Series June 2024
No need to know: GW cosmology without astrophysics
Niels Bohr International Academy Gravity Seminar June 2024
What the population of GW sources can do for you
APS Division of Gravitation (DGRAV) Seminar May 2024
GW Cosmology without astrophysics (with Prof. Daniel Holz)
McWilliams Center for Cosmology at Carnegie Mellon University Seminar November 2023
Astrophysical lessons learned from the mass distribution of GW sources
Gravitational-Wave Populations: What’s next? July 2023
How to identify population outliers and what to do with them
UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics Seminar March 2023
Astrophysical lessons learned from the mass distribution of gravitational wave sources
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Paper Webinar December 2021
The population of merging compact binaries inferred from GWTC-3
KICP Special Seminar November 2021
The population of merging compact binaries inferred from GWTC-3
Environmental Data Science Lunch April 2021
Don't Just Leave-One-Out: Probing Extremal Gravitational-Wave Events with Coarse-Grained Likelihoods
University of Chicago Department of Geophysical Sciences Expo June 2020
The Wrath of the Jet Stream: Thermodynamic Effects Dominate Reduction of Projected Wintertime Temperature Variability
Public Talks and Outreach
Would a flashlight turn on at lightspeed? And three others 2023-2024
"Moment of Um" Podcast Series by American Public Media
Gravitational Waves from Black Holes February 2023
Guest lecture for undergraduate course, University of Chicago
Gravitational Wave Cosmology June 2022
Guest lecture for undergraduate Astronomy Course, University of Chicago
What To Do When Gravity Waves April 2022
Chicago Public Library, Lifelong Learning talk series
Talk with a scientist March 2022
John Stanford International Elementary School, Invited Speaker
Teaching
Instructor and Course Creator Spring Semester 2023
Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
Introduction to Observational Astronomy
Instructor and Coordinator Summers of 2020, 2021, and 2022
University of Chicago DSEER Bootcamps
Scientific Programming Workshop
Teaching Assistant Fall 2018 - Summer 2019
Space Explorers Program
Weekly class and biannual institute for high schoolers
Teaching Assistant Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
University of Chicago
Introductory Physics Sequence
Teaching Assistant Winter 2019
University of Chicago
Modern Physics in the Everyday World
Teaching Assistant 2016-2018
University of Pennsylvania Observatory
Instructor for all undergraduate astronomy courses
Active Learning Instructor 2017 - 2018
University of Pennsylvania
Introductory Physics Sequence
Image credit: Aurore Simonnet (LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State) for Wired Magazine