I’m an astronomy instructor at Case Western Reserve University, where I teach the introductory astrophysics sequence for majors and minors, ASTR 221: Stars & Planets and ASTR 222: Galaxies & Cosmology, and a data-driven version of ASTR 311: Stellar Physics, the upper-level course covering stellar atmospheres, interiors, and evolution. I've also developed an 8-week asynchronous course for ASTR 103: Intro to Stars, Galaxies, & the Universe, which is typically offered in the CWRU Summer session.

I also provide instructional and technology support for the CWRU Astronomy department, and manage CWRU's rooftop telescope. I’m also a contributor to odi-tools, a set of Python/Pyraf based scripts for stacking ODI images, and performing photometry tasks on the results.

My research interests involve (broadly) Local Group cosmology and (narrowly) dwarf galaxies in the local universe. I received my PhD in Astronomy in 2018 from Indiana University, working with Katherine Rhode. My dissertation project was based on observations of ultra-compact high velocity clouds from the ALFALFA neutral hydrogen survey. I used the WIYN telescope and its One Degree Imager to search for stellar counterparts to these objects, like Leo P, an extremely metal poor star-forming dwarf galaxy in the Local Group, identifying a number of potential dwarf galaxy candidates. As an undergraduate, I worked with Heather Morrison at CWRU to quantify kinematic substructure in the Milky Way stellar halo using K giant stars selected from the SDSS SEGUE project.