About Me

I am a NASA Einstein Fellow at Northwestern's CIERA working on using gravitational-wave data to understand the properties of compact-object mergers, their electromagnetic counterparts, and the stochastic gravitational-wave background. I received my PhD in Physics from MIT in June 2023 under the guidance of Associate Professor Salvatore Vitale, where I was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a PEO Scholar. I completed my undergraduate studies at the Schreyer Honors College of the Pennsylvania State University, majoring in Physics and Spanish and completing minors in Mathematics and Violin/Viola performance. Before starting my PhD at MIT, I was a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, working on LIGO data analysis with Professor Eric Thrane. I am also an avid musician and play in the Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

In Fall 2025, I will join the Princeton Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor. If you are interested in pursuring a PhD in gravitational-wave astronomy in my group, I encourage you to apply for the Physics or Astrophysics PhD programs at Princeton and to indicate your interest in GW research. I would be happy to chat about what working together might look like if you are admitted to the program later in the spring. Current Princeton grad students, please feel free to reach out directly. I am also hiring a postdoc to join my group starting Fall 2025. Candidates with experience in GW data analysis, EM follow-up, population synthesis, and source modeling are encouraged to apply.

Research Interests

• Parameter estimation and population inference for compact binary coalescences
• Multimessenger astronomy including kilonovae and gamma-ray bursts
• Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds

You can check out some of my code on gitlab. I am also a developer of bilby.