About Me
I am a fourth year graduate student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin pursuing a PhD in Astronomy. My advisor is Prof. Brendan Bowler. We work on using long-term astrometric accelerations detected between Hipparcos and Gaia to find and characterize imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs. My goal is to use astrometry and direct imaging to improve our understanding of the formation, demographics, and atmospheric evolution of wide-separation planet and brown dwarf companions. I have focused on two related projects at Texas: measuring dynamical masses of known substellar companions and searching for new planets and brown dwarfs around young accelerating stars through a multi-facility high-contrast imaging survey. Before coming to UT, I majored in Physics with a minor in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. There, I worked with Prof. David Gerdes on finding new minor planets in the outer solar system that were hiding in Dark Energy Survey data. I am also passionate about mentorship and outreach, serving as an informal mentor for several undergraduate students and co-organizing Starbound planetarium visits at local schools. Outside of astronomy, I love to play music. I play clarinet, piano, and the guitar; was in the marching band at Michigan; and even conducted a clarinet choir at one point!
Here is my CV, which contains an updated publication list.