Summary
I am a NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center Postdoctoral Fellow at Oregon State University, working with Dr. Jeffrey Hazboun and Dr. Xavier Siemens. My research spans the gravitational wave spectrum: at nanohertz frequencies, I analytically model a pulsar timing array's sensitivity to anisotropic gravitational wave backgrounds. I also work on characterizing the noise in pulsars through customized chromatic noise modeling for NANOGrav datasets. At millihertz frequencies, I continue my LISA-focused work begun during my Ph.D. on highly eccentric EMRIs, known as “peeps”. For more information on these projects, see the Research tab.
I received my B.S. in Physics from Oklahoma State University in 2017 with a thesis on slow noise in a laser with injected signal, and completed my Ph.D. in Space and Planetary Sciences (concentration in gravitational wave astrophysics) at the University of Arkansas in 2024 with a dissertation on Improved Modeling of Highly Eccentric EMRIs for LISA Signal Confusion Noise. Between 2023 and 2024 I was a Visiting Student Researcher with the TAPIR group at Caltech, collaborating with Dr. Curt Cutler at JPL on LISA data analysis. For more information, see the CV tab.