Hi! I'm Savannah, a 2nd year graduate student in astronomy.
I grew up in the rural Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, and made my way to Wellesley College for undergrad. There, I received my B.A. in Spring 2022 in Astrophysics and East Asian Studies/Japanese Language and Culture. One of my research projects there was under the CHIME/FRB Collaboration, where I worked on instrumentation and FRB host-galaxy analysis with my advisors Kim McLeod, Kiyoshi Masui, and Juan Mena-Parra. After graduating, I spent 10 months at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Fellow under Michiko Fujii, where I studied compact binary mergers in simulations of open star clusters.
Now at Berkeley, I work with Wenbin Lu running hydrodynamic simulations of supernovae in close binary systems and the subsequent consequences of such. I am more broadly interested in radio transients, binary stars, and compact stellar object; feel free to email me if you are too!
Outside of research, I like to play ultimate frisbee, run, hike, and read under the firelight of my TTPD-inspired candle. Also, during my summers I hang out in Bryce, Utah where I get to teach astronomy to the public almost every night under some of the darkest skies in North America!
