See my research page and my CV for more info on my work.
About me
I’m a Bay Area native, a timid singer, an avid baker (since before COVID-19), and now a physics postdoc at MIT. I began my academic journey at Stanford University, where I studied physics and math, and I got my first introduction to the dark universe while working with Risa Wechsler.
I held off on beginning my PhD for a year to work on bibliometrics with Jonathan Pritchard and to enjoy some extra math classes, picking up an MS in math for my trouble. Then I moved on to my doctoral work with Stefano Profumo at UC Santa Cruz. After some lovely years among the redwoods, I started as a Pappalardo Fellow in the MIT physics department.
What I do
I study cosmological dark matter using a combination of techniques from particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and black hole physics. My ultimate goal is to understand dark matter in the same way that we understand ordinary matter, with predictive particle physics models. Along the way, I use model-independent methods to learn about the way dark matter behaves, regardless of exactly what it turns out to be.
Friends and collaborators
I am based at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, where I work with lots of wonderful students and faculty. I collaborate most closely with the group of Tracy Slatyer. I also work closely with Yonit Hochberg and Eric Kuflik at Hebrew University, Yoni Kahn at UIUC, and Noah Kurinsky at SLAC.
I did my doctoral work with the big and friendly bunch pictured (partially) below: the theory group at UC Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP). Along the way, I got to work with some awesome undergrads. Check out my students page for more info on their projects with me, particularly if you’re an interested student yourself!
