About Me

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy. I am interested in exoplanets and their atmospheres, and in particular, I am interested in what exoplanet observations can tell us about the formation history of a planet.

For my first project as a Ph.D. student, I fit JWST observations of the widely separated substellar companion Ross 458c with forward models and retrievals to infer its composition. By comparing the composition to its host, we determined that its composition is consistent with the host, and so it likely formed through gravitational fragmentation of the same molecular cloud that formed the host.

As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I studied Luminous InfraRed Galaxies (LIRGs) with the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) team. As a post-bac at Caltech, I studied supernovae as a member of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF).