I'm an experimental astrophysicist working in the field of exoplanet imaging. The goals of my research group are the detection and characterization of planets around other stars, which we pursue by building, developing, and using new instruments. Our main research efforts focus on developing infrared detectors and instrument concepts for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, adaptive optics instrumentation for large ground-based telescopes like Keck and Subaru, and observing disks and planets using these and other large ground-based telescope facilities.
Before joining the faculty of Berkeley, I was on the faculty of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. Prior to being an academic, I was an optical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, working on developing the Roman Coronagraph, formation flying for the Starshade mission, wavefront sensing for large ground-based telescopes, and new post-processing algorithms for exoplanet imaging.
Education:
PhD, Astrophysics, Caltech (2016)
BA, Mathematics; BA, Physics, Columbia (2008)
