about me
Pappalardo Fellow & NASA Einstein Fellow in the MIT Department of Physics
In fall 2021, I will join the McGill University Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor.
More About Me
My Background
I received my PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 2019 with the support of fellowships from the Hertz Foundation and the National Science Foundation. My dissertation, "Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe" was supervised by Hitoshi Murayama and won the American Physical Society Sakurai Dissertation Award. Before my time in California, I graduated from MIT in 2014 with a degree in physics. My senior thesis was jointly supervised by Tracy Slatyer and David Kaiser.
My Research
My interests are at the intersection of theoretical astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology, although sometimes I do like to get my hands dirty with the data. A major focus of my research is understanding the composition and behavior of dark matter. My ultimate goal is to recover every bit of information about what our Universe is made of by considering how astrophysical systems would be affected with the addition of new, undiscovered particles and interactions.
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