Welcome!

I'm a staff astronomer at the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I did my PhD at Columbia University with Prof. David Kipping in the Cool Worlds Lab and Prof. Malena Rice at Yale University.

My research focuses on the intersection of exoplanetary and planetary science. I study transiting exoplanets and how we can extract as much information as possible about them given a set of observations. Specifically, I'm interested in the processes/extra nearby objects that leave subtle imprints on our time series observations, such as exomoons, planetary rings, and planetary oblateness/triaxiality. I both model these affects (check out squishyplanet) and look for them in real data. I've lead two JWST GO programs to investigate cold giant planets, Kepler-167e and HIP-41378f.

I'm also interested in the outer solar system and synergies between exoplanet/planetary science datasets. I did a predoc with Prof. Malena Rice at Yale University working on detecting trans-Neptunian objects in archival TESS data. I am the developer of the autodifferentiable N-body python package jorbit.

Outside of research, I also used to write for Astrobites and the American Astronomical Society. I may be open to supervising students on a semester-by-semester basis, so if you're interested in working with me, please reach out!