Education
- B.A., Astrophysics; University of California, Berkeley; May 2005
- M.S., Physics; San Francisco State University; May 2008
- Attending with intention for Ph.D.; University of California, Santa Cruz
Research
Computational
- Numerical simulations of interacting stellar winds.
University of California, Santa Cruz, August 2008 - present.
Advisor: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Observational
- Progenitor clusters of Type Ia SNe.
University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2009 - present.
Advisors: Justyn Maund, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
- Helium-core white dwarfs in NGC 6397.
San Francisco State University, September 2005 - May 2008.
Advisor: Adrienne Cool
Master's thesis committee: Adrienne Cool, Susan Lea, Ron Marzke
Teaching
Teaching Assistantships
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Astronomy 80A, a topical course on the science that has been
accomplished by solar system exploration missions.
University of California, Santa Cruz, Winter 2009
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Physics 122, an undergraduate algebra-only physics
lab aimed at pre-med and biology majors.
San Francisco State University, Summer 2006
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Astronomy 116, an undergraduate non-major astronomy lab.
San Francisco State University, Fall 2005 - Spring, 2006.
Teaching K-12
- NSF GK-12 Fellow teaching eighth grade physical science with partner-teacher Shauna Poong
at Marina Middle School, San Francisco.
San Francisco State University, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007.
Outreach
- Informal advising for non-traditional students, UCSC, Fall 2008 - present
- Docent for solar observing, SFSU, Spring 2008
- Personal tutor, Laney and Vista community colleges, Spring 1997 - Fall 1998
Additional Work History
- Senior Quality Engineer for Windows, Linux, and Mac client and server products
July 2000 – August 2005; Aramova Software, now Birdstep Technology, San Francisco, CA