Biography
I am interested in learning about the nature of dark matter and galaxy formation using wide-field astronomical surveys such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
In particular, I work on finding and characterizing stellar streams and dwarf galaxies in the local universe and enabling this science by making infrastructure level contributions to cosmological surveys. These contributions range from instrumentation and calibration to science validation and software development. At the University of Washington I am a DiRAC postdoctoral fellow as well as a fellow in the eScience institute. Previously, I was a postdoc at another UW on an isthmus (University of Wisconsin-Madison) where I was part of the observational cosmology group, and I completed my PhD at Texas A&M University.