I am a theoretical nuclear astrophysicist working as an associate professor of physics at the Mathematics and Physics of Manhattan University. My research in neutron star astrophysics focuses on the studies of the structure, composition, and dynamics of neutron stars (mass, radii, moments of inertia, tidal deformability, nuclear pasta, cooling processes, gravitational wave emissions, etc.) through developing and employing equations of state of neutron-rich matter. My research in nuclear theory focuses on the understanding of isovector nuclear interaction through building and developing nuclear energy density functionals in the context of the relativistic mean-field and Skyrme Hartree-Fock models, and through studies of the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy, neutron, and weak charge distributions, and the neutron skin thicknesses of medium to heavy nuclei. My research publications are on my Google Scholar page or in my NASA Astrophysics Data System.