About Me
I'm a fourth year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota. I work with Tom Jones using the WOMBAT MHD simulation suite to study AGN jet - environment interactions. I'm also involved in the development of WisdomWombat, the next generation of the code, and WiserWombat, the first ML integration into the code. I hold a joint GRA position at Los Alamos working on jet studies as part of my dissertation research. I'm heavily involved in public outreach and just this year became an astrobites author.
I'm originally from CT and attended Wellesley College in MA for my bachelor's in astrophysics with a minor in computer science. There, I had a number of research positions ranging from stellar variability and supernova (MIT) to exoplanets (Wellesley) to quasars (Middlebury) to particle accelerators (LBNL). I was also part of the Shakespeare Society and worked as a book conservation assistant in the library.
In my free time I enjoy reading absolute bricks of fantasy and sci-fi novels and baking.