The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is one of the most powerful facilities we have available today to study the Universe, from early galaxies to to the formation of planets around young stars. 

With its unparalleled resolution and sensitivity, combined with its polarization capabilities, ALMA is uniquely suited for the study of how magnetic fields evolve from scale of giant molecular clouds to that of proto-stellar cores. 

As one of the staff scientists for the East Asian ALMA Regional Center (EA-ARC) at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), I contribute to the operations of ALMA and support the scientific community in its use. 

As a Postdoctoral Researcher at Worcester State University and at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, I was the co-lead for the ​Filaments Extremely Long and Dark: a Magnetic Polarization Survey (FIELDMAPS) of infrared dark filaments with the HAWC+ instrument on SOFIA. 

My primary goal with the FIELDMAPS survey was to systematically produce the largest polarization data set of infrared dark filaments using the best practices for HAWC+ data reduction. These data are publicly available on the FIELDMAPS Dataverse for anyone to use. 

The FIELDMAPS survey showed that magnetic fields in these star-forming dark clouds were dynamically important in resisting gravity along the length of the filaments, except in regions of massive enough to actively undergo star formation.