I am currently a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the astronomy department at UC Santa Cruz, studying galaxy evolution at low and high redshift.

 

I received my PhD from Yale university under the supervision of Pieter van Dokkum. In my thesis research I investigated the role of minor mergers in galaxy evolution. Recently I have been focusing on utilizing large observational data sets to study the size and mass growth of massive galaxies from a purely statistical point of view. I have averaged data from tens of thousands of individual galaxy observations to better understand the properties and environments of the most massive galaxies in the universe.

 

Outside of the office I mostly try to spend as much time as I can with my wife Mikki and our son Eli and stay in enough shape to battle the steep paths of the UC Santa Cruz campus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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