Researcher

I was born and raised under the dark skies of Butte Montana. My interest in Astronomy began when I was shown Saturn through a telescope by Lloyd Magnuson, my 8th grade science teacher. After meandering through interest in different sciences, I landed at the Physics and Astronomy Department at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California. There I collected both an undergraduate and Master’s Degree working with Dr. Debra Fischer, focusing my research on exoplanet detection and stellar activity metrics. After graduation, I began with working at UC Berkeley on the Kepler...