About Me

I am an incoming Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton University 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 in 2023 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a PEO Scholar. I completed my postdoctoral research as a NASA Einstein Fellow at CIERA at Northwestern University. Previously, I was a Fulbright postgraduate scholar at Monash University and obtained my undergraduate degrees at the Schreyer Honors College of the Pennsylvania State University, majoring in Physics and Spanish and completing minors in Mathematics and Violin/Viola performance. I am also an avid musician, having played in orchestral and chamber music groups throughout my career.

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 and undergraduates, please feel free to reach out directly.

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.