About
I am a Lecturer at Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy in Perth, Western Australia. I use multiwavelength observations to identify objects in extreme gravitational environments and characterise their physics.
I got my Bachelor of Science in physics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2014, and my PhD in astrophysics in July 2020 from Michigan State University. From 2020 until 2023, I was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and in 2023-2024 I was a NASA Einstein Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
My work leverages both optical studies of dense stellar cluster environments, and X-ray studies of objects undergoing accretion in an unknown regime of physics. These studies probe the population of X-ray binaries in globular clusters, and also provide observational evidence of the extent and nature of black holes in the dense clusters of stars outside of our own Galaxy.
I am also the co-chair of Rubin Observatory's Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume Collaboration, and the Star Clusters Science Working Group. I am extremely excited about the opportunity to expand our understanding of the extent of extragalactic globular clusters, and using modern techniques to identify them.
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