Postdoctoral Research Positions

Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Karl Schwartzschild Fellow

KIPAC/Stanford University

Porat Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

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Yale University

Ph.D. Physics
PhD thesis: “The Environments of Accreting Supermassive Black Holes”
Advisor: Prof. C. Megan Urry
M. Phil                                                                                      
M.S. Physics                                                                            

University of California, Davis                                                  

B.S. Physics, Astrophysics Emphasis – Summa Cum Laude
Honors thesis: Large Scale Structure Mass Associated with Optically Identified DLS Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor: Prof. Tony Tyson

Selected Presentations

Invited Talk: “Probing the environments of accreting supermassive black holes,” AEI Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, 2024
Invited Talk:
“Where does AGN activity occur within the cosmic web?,” Accretion History of AGN III Workshop, Miami, 2023
”The impact of AGN selection on measurements of the AGN halo occupation distribution“, X-ray Universe, Athens, 2023
Invited Talk:
“AGN Clustering with AXIS,” AXIS Seminar Series, virtual, 2023
Invited Talk:
“Constraining the SMBH-halo connection with BASS DR2,“ American Astronomical Society, 241, 2023
"Constraining the SMBH-halo connection in the local universe," YAGN22, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, 2022
"Constraining the SMBH-halo connection in the local universe," What drives the growth of black holes: a decade of reflection, Iceland, 2022
Invited Talk: “AGN Clustering with AXIS,” AXIS Working Group Meeting, virtual, 2022
”The Local Supermassive Black Hole - Dark Matter Halo Connection,” American Astronomical Society 240, Pasadena, 2022
Invited Talk:
”Probing the Halo-scale Environments of X-ray AGN,” Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
Invited Talk:
“Clustering of X-ray Luminous Quasars”, Accretion History of AGN Workshop, Miami, 2019
Invited Talk:
“The Clustering of Hard X-ray-selected AGN,” Corfu, 2019
“The Spatial Clustering of X-ray-selected AGN,” NERQUAM #29, MIT, Boston, 2019
“The Environments of Accreting Supermassive Black Holes,” Dissertation Talk, American Astronomical Society, 233, Seattle, 2019
Invited Talk:
“Clustering of X-ray selected AGN”, Accretion History of AGN Workshop, Miami, 2018
Invited Talk: “Probing the Large-Scale Environments of Local AGN,” Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, 2018
"Clustering of Hard X-ray AGN," Are AGN Special? Durham, 2018
Invited Talk: "Black Hole Mass Estimates of Swift/BAT AGN," Palomar Science Meeting, 2018
“Clustering of Hard X-ray selected AGN” (poster), NERQUAM #28, Yale, New Haven, 2018
Invited Talk: “AGN Clustering in the BAT Sample,” American Astronomical Society, 231, Washington DC, 2018
“Markarian 1018 returns to the shadows after 30 years as a Type 1 AGN,” Unveiling the Physics Behind Extreme AGN Variability, Virgin Islands, 2017
“Probing the Properties of AGN Clustering in the Local Universe with Swift-BAT,” The X-ray Universe, Rome, 2017
“The Role of Mergers in Quenching Star Formation” (poster), Hidden Monsters, Dartmouth, Hanover, 2016
“Studying the Role of Mergers in Black Hole - Galaxy Co-evolution via a Morphological Analysis of Redshift 1 Galaxies,” American Astronomical Society, 228, San Diego, 2016

Successful Proposals as PI

Palomar DBSP, “Completing a Census of Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates in the Local Universe,” 2 nights, 2019B
Palomar DBSP, “Completing a Census of Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates in the Local Universe,” 3 nights, 2019A
Palomar DBSP, “Completing a Census of Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates in the Local Universe,” 3 nights, 2018B
Palomar DBSP, “A Census of Supermassive Black Hole Growth Across the Universe,” 3 nights, 2018A
Palomar DBSP, “Completing a Census of Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates in the Local Universe,” 5 nights, 2017B
NuSTAR, “What is Causing the New, Extreme Variability in Mrk 1018?,”40 ks, 2017 ($43k)

Service and Outreach

Referee for ApJ, MNRAS, A&A, PASJ
NASA NuSTAR Cycle 10 Panel Review, 2024
Booth leader and lecturer for KIPAC community day, 2023
Stanford/KIPAC colloquium committee, 2020-2023
Judge for Chambliss undergraduate iposter competition, AAS, 2022-2023
NSF Panel Review, 2022
K-12 Astronomy Night volunteer, 2022
NASA NuSTAR Cycle 7 Panel Review, 2021
Judge for Stanford Research Conference, 2021
Stanford/KIPAC graduate admissions committee, 2021
NASA Swift Cycle 16 Panel Review, 2019
NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis Program Review Committee, 2018
Regular volunteer for Girls Science Investigation (gsi.yale.edu), 2014-2019
gradSWE Engineering Day volunteer (www.engineeringday.com)
Judge for New Haven Science Fair
Judge for Yale Undergraduate Research Conference

Honors and Awards

Schwarzschild Fellowship
Porat Fellowship
NASA CT Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
Leigh Page Prize, Yale University Physics Department
Saxon Patten Prize, UC Davis Physics Department
Citation for Outstanding Performance, UC Davis Physics Department
Membership to Sigma Pi Sigma (Undergraduate Physics Honor Society)
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra - Principal Violist