...an assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. I primarily study the types of eclipsing binary stars, observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, that masquerade as transiting exoplanets. I modify and apply exoplanet-analysis tools to a combination of ground- and space-based observations to probe stellar physics across the main-sequence. I am also currently helping renovate UMD's observatory to become capable of transiting exoplanet (and EB) follow-up.

I previously served as an assistant research professor (2021-22) and Eberly Research Fellow (2018-21) in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University.  I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Astronomy at The Ohio State University in 2018 and my B.A. in mathematics and physics with a concentration in astronomy from Northwestern University in 2012.

I usually teach:

• AST 1043 (fall) & 1045 (spring): Introductory Astronomy 

• PHYS 2013: General Physics I (spring)

• PHYS 3561/5561: Stellar Astrophysics (fall, in even-numbered years)