Overview
I am a fourth-year graduate student interested in the characterization of exoplanets via atmospheric retrievals, laboratory work, and forward models. My work thus far has included Mie scattering clouds in the open-source code POSEIDON to model transmission, emission, and reflection spectra of hot Jupiters and brown dwarfs. I am specifically interested in exploring silicate clouds in hot Jupiter atmospheres by taking laboratory measurements of optical properties of silicates, building forward chemical and global climate models, and fitting JWST data. My favorite planets are Neptune, WD 1856b, and WASP-17b!
I grew up in the panhandle of Florida and received a B.S. in Mathematics, Physics, and Astrophysics (with a minor in Japanese) from the University of Florida in 2021. During my gap year between undergraduate and graduate school I worked as a planetarium instructor where I gave talks and demonstrations to young students and the general public on topics ranging from local astronomy to the basics of general relativity.
I like spending my free time with my dog and cat, cooking, and reading books/comic books.