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.

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.