I am graduate student in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  Generally, I am interested in theoretical/computational nuclear astrophysics.  My research currently focuses on proto-neutron star cooling and nucleosynthesis in the neutrino driven wind.  I am also involved in projects studying nuclear physics in x-ray bursts, monte carlo neutrino transport, neutrino interactions in dense matter, and the electromagnetic and nucleosynthetic signatures of compact object mergers.  My advisor is Stan Woosley and my collaborators include Sanjay Reddy, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Vincenzo Cirigliano, and Dan Kasen.