Experience

University of Arizona

• PHD Candidate

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomy & Astrophysics



National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Graduate Research Fellow

  • Aug 2018 - Present



University of Oregon

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fishergroup Lead Student Researcher

  • Mar 2015 - Jun 2018

• Physics Demonstration Room Assistant

  • Apr 2015 - Jun 2016

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jun 2015 - Sep 2015



Pine Mountain Observatory

• Tour guide of the night sky and Telescope Operator

  • May 2014 - Jun 2018



NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Fellow

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2017

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  About one hundred years after Einstein's general theory of relativity, the existence of gravitational waves was confirmed experimentally by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The merger of compact binaries such as neutron star - black hole systems or neutron star - neutron star systems are expected to produce burst-like electromagnetic signals in addition to gravitational waves. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is continuously surveying the sky looking for the electromagnetic signals produced in these types of events. In addition to the on-board trigger system that alerts the astronomical community when a gamma-ray burst event has been detected, the GBM team is also developing a search algorithm to comb the data for possible gamma-ray bursts that did not trigger the on-board system. I analyzed the resulting events from this untriggered search to optimize the search algorithm by categorizing successful search parameters and evaluating timing and spectral information to distinguish gamma-ray burst events from known Galactic transients. Show less



Moss Street Children's Center

• Science Educator

  • Jul 2015 - Sep 2015