I obtained my undergraduate degree in astrophysics from University College, London, and a DPhil (PhD) from the Subdepartment of Astrophysics at Oxford University, under the supervision of Steve Rawlings. After postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with Wil van Breugel and Bob Becker, I moved to Berkeley in 2007 to work with Geoff Bower. I currently work as a researcher on the Breakthrough Listen project.
In my spare time I enjoy cooking, photography, hiking, camping, and travel. I live in Oakland with my wife Lori, an attorney, and our husky Laika.
I’m an Assistant Research Scientist working on 21 cm cosmology with Aaron Parsons and the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) group.
I lead the HERA Analysis team, focused on calibration and data reduction. I’m broadly interested in cosmology and focused on the physics of the Epoch of Reionization the Cosmic Dawn and the analysis of data from massive radio interferometers.
I am a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab and a senior member of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP). Previously I was a Miller and BCCP Fellow in the department of Astronomy at Berkeley. I completed my PhD in Astrophysics at Princeton and I was an undergraduate at Cambridge and a masters’ student at the University of Chicago.
I am an astronomer interested in developing novel algorithms to help solve the most pressing questions in modern-day astrophysics. I am best known for discovering the first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) at the highest radio frequencies. My developed GPU-accelerated and Machine Learning-enabled tool – named SPANDAK – actively used by researchers at eight observatories to search for FRBs. I deployed and...
