I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley and I am a member of the South Texas Space Science Institute. I continue to collaborate with the Munnerlyn Instrumentation Lab to design and build new astronomical instruments. I also have considerable experience in astronomical survey management through my time as the targeting and cadence coordinator for the Milky Way Mapper and as the northern targeting selection coordinator of APOGEE-2. I am currently the director for the Undergraduate Summer Program at the LSST Rubin Community Workshop. I also spent two years working in industry as a data scientist with the Qualis Corporation and the Sysco Corporation.

You can find my current resume here, my current CV here, and a list of my publications on the ADS here.

During my academic career I have had the privilege to work with many American and International institutions. My current and previous appointments are below.

Current Appointments

• 2024 - Assistant Professor, The Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

• 2023 - Director, Student Summer Program at The LSST Discovery Alliance

Previous Appointments

• 2021 -2024 Assistant Research Scientist, The Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University 

• 2022 - 2024 Visiting Researcher, The Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley 

• 2020 - 2021 Astronomer, The Qualis Corporation at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO - ESSCA contract) 

• 2019 - 2020 Data Scientist, The Enterprise Analytics Team at the Sysco Corporation

• 2019 Visiting Researcher, The Department of Astronomy at Rice University

• 2019 Target & Cadence Coordinator, The Milky Way Mapper in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

• 2016 - 2019 Target Selection Field Coordinator, The APOGEE-2N Survey in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV

• 2016 - 2022 Postdoc & Consultant, The Department of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt University

• 2012 East Asian & Pacific Summer Institute Fellow, The Department of Astronomy and Space Science at Nanjing University in China

• 2010 - 2016 Graduate Student Researcher, The Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University

• 2006 - 2009 Stevens Undergraduate Research Fellow, The Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology 

Study Abroad

• 2014 & 2015 The Inter University Campus for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in India

• 2013 - 2016 The Argentine National Observatory and Bosque Alegre Astrophysical Station at IATE in Argentina

• 2012 The Department of Astronomy and Space Science at Nanjing University in China