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I work in the Space Applied Research Group of the Space Exploration Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. My efforts span a multitude of projects across the lab, largely focused on technology developments for humanity's return to the Moon and projects in National Security Space.

I was part of the 2018 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, and worked at the University of Maryland, College Park under the auspices of Johnpierre Paglione to develop advanced synthesis techniques and characterize strongly correlated or "quantum" materials.

I obtained my PhD in July 2018 at the Institute for Quantum Matter (IQM) at Johns Hopkins University, working toward my PhD in physics under Collin Broholm as a Gardner Fellow and Lockheed Martin/KPMG ARCS fellow. During this time, I studied collective phenomena in condensed matter through crystal growth/characterization, advanced spectroscopy (mostly neutron scattering), and theory. The majority of my PhD was spent studying samarium hexaboride, a putative topological Kondo insulator with a topologically non-trivial band structure born out of hybridization.

I've also spent a fair bit of time working with frustrated magnetic systems, where competing interactions lead to large ground state degeneracies and intriguing dynamics. For instance, magnon decays can be present in frustrated magnetic systems. Magnon decays are when interacting magnons, the quasi-particles of spin-waves, obtain a finite lifetime even at zero temperature.