I grew up in Evanston, IL just North of Chicago where I attended Evanston Township High School (ETHS).
During my junior and senior years at ETHS, I worked with Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern University) on disk formation in TDEs using the GRMHD code H-AMR.
I did undergrad at Yale University, where I studied physics.
During my first two years, I worked in Nir Navon's Ultracold Quantum Matter Lab building a magneto-optical trap to cool Strontium atoms for an optical tweezer array.
After my second year, I returned to astronomy, continuing my work with Sasha Tchekhovskoy on disk formation in TDEs.
My work with Sasha resulted in a first-author publication.
I collaborated with Nick Kaaz on accretion in thin misaligned disks, resulting in a co-author publication.
During my final year, I worked with Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and Priya Natarajan for my senior thesis.
Simultaneously, I was the president of the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association, where I led the development of a cosmic ray detector for a CubeSat among other projects.
During the summer after my third year of undergrad, I worked with Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz at the Lamat Institute REU program to develop a semi-analytic model for double-peaked Balmer line emission in TDEs.
During my final year of undergrad, I continued this work with Priya Natarajan as my senior thesis.
During the summer after my first year of graduate school, I worked with Chris Fryer at Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a model for the thermalization of beta particles in kilonova ejecta.
This work is still ongoing and we hope to submit the manuscript soon.
I am currently a Ph.D. student at Princeton University in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.
In my first year, I worked with Romain Teyssier to analyze star formation in massive galaxies at Cosmic Dawn using the hydrodynamics code RAMSES, resulting in a first-author publication.
I collaborated with James Sunseri on a follow-up project on SMBH growth, resulting in a co-author publication.
In my second year, I started working with Eliot Quataert on TDEs for my Ph.D. thesis.
My first thesis paper is coming soon.