About

I am (as of Fall 2023) a postdoc in the Moving Universe Lab at UC Berkeley. In the Summer of 2023, I completed my PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics at Penn State. My current research is focused on gravitational microlensing, and in particular, the search for stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way. My past research topics have been: microlensing searches for exoplanets, star and brown dwarf formation, and the search for technosignatures (or SETI).

Current Projects

• Astrometric follow up of long-timescale microlensing events to search for stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way (paper in progress)
• Chairing the Galactic Science Working Group of the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), which will begin observations in Summer 2024
• Developing/maintaining the SynthPop population synthesis Galactic modeling code (software paper and application paper in progress)

Check out my ADS libraries for a full list of my peer-reviewed publications and all my entries on ADS.