About Me
Welcome to my website! I am a third-year graduate student in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, where I am supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I am interested in the diversity of exoplanets and understanding where our Solar System fits in the context of these other worlds.
At Caltech I work with Andrew Howard on radial velocity detection and characterization of exoplanets in order to understand the demographics of planets in our galaxy.
Here’s a statement about a coauthor I’ve been listed with. Content warning: sexual harassment & abuse.
I am a coauthor on a few papers that also list Geoff Marcy, a serial sexual harasser and abuser, as an author. I opposed decisions to offer Marcy authorship, but my opinion as a coauthor was not part of the decision-making process. I felt (and feel) conflicted about my decisions to remain on each of these papers. I believed my work on these papers was valuable and deserving of recognition as a junior scientist. I do not now, nor have I ever, nor will I ever, collaborate with Geoff Marcy. I stand in solidarity with all survivors of harassment and/or abuse and believe that such behavior has no place in the sciences, nor anywhere.
As an undergraduate at the University of Rochester, I worked with Segev BenZvi on a number of projects in gamma-ray astroparticle physics, and on machine learning classification of galaxy spectra to identify supernovae.
My pronouns are he/him.
Interests
- Exoplanet Demographics
- Planet Detection and Characterization
- Data science and statistics
Education
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PhD in Astrophysics, 2024
California Institute of Technology
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BS in Physics and Astronomy, 2018
University of Rochester
