The Dead Stars Society
In 2023, I started the Dead Stars Society to provide research opportunities to students from under resourced institutions.
Our goal is to provide astrophysics research opportunities to all students by developing student-oriented analysis guides.
Currently, we have an analysis guide for Chandra X-ray spectroscopy available, and progress is underway for Fermi-LAT binned likelihood analysis, as well as accessing and using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
We are supported by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time Discovery Alliance and the Michigan Space Grant Consortium.
read more about the program and view our analysis guides here .
Press Releases
The Dead Stars Society
In 2023, I started the Dead Stars Society to provide research opportunities to students from under resourced institutions. Our goal is to provide astrophysics research opportunities to all students by developing student-oriented analysis guides. Currently, we have an analysis guide for Chandra X-ray spectroscopy available, and progress is underway for Fermi-LAT binned likelihood analysis, as well as accessing and using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. We are supported by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time Discovery Alliance and the Michigan Space Grant Consortium. read more about the program and view our analysis guides here .Press Releases
Teaching Philosophy
A major component of my teaching philosophy is making physics courses more accessible to students. In 2018, I participated in inquiry driven course development through the Institute of Scientist and Engineer Educators Professional Development Program. This training involved a series of workshops to learn how to incorporate pedagogical methods such as active learning and inquiry based teaching methods into the classroom. The specific goal of redesigning the lab was to make the topic and techniques of the lecture on identifying exoplanets from observational data and modeling the results more accessible to non-major students.
Mentoring
Since 2018, I have supervised a number of phenomenal students in research projects, including
- Using machine learning to identify extragalactic globular cluster candidates from ground-based photometric surveys of M87
- Optical and X-ray follow-up to a globular cluster ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 4472
- The X-ray point source population hosted by globular clusters in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4261
- Globular cluster ultraluminous X-ray sources in the furthest early-type galaxies