Overview
I grew up in Sunrise, Florida and graduated from the IB program at Boyd H. Anderson High School in 2008. I did my undergraduate work at Caltech (2012) working on young stars with Prof. Lynne Hillenbrand, and my Ph.D at The Ohio State University (2018) on red giant stars with Prof. Marc Pinsonneault. I was then a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa before starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in 2022.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Ohio State, 2018
- M.Sc., Ohio State, 2014
- B.Sc., Caltech, 2012
Research
I’m interested in stars, how they grow, how they change, and what that tells us about the physics going on inside them. I work both on the theory of stars, thinking about how to make better models of their structure and evolution, as well as on observations, using large datasets of photometry from the ground and space as well as high-resolution spectroscopy to precisely and accurately characterize these stars. I also use asteroseismology, the study of stellar oscillations, to tell us about the internal structure of stars. Recently, the observations have gotten good enough to show that our simple theories of things like rotation, convection, and mixing in stars are wrong, and I’m excited about the possibilities to develop more realistic models, and to apply those better models to our studies both of the demographics and architecture of exoplanetary systems, as well as the formation and evolution of our own and other galaxies.