Academic interests

• Radiation hydrodynamics
• Circumgalactic (CGM) and interstellar medium (ISM) simulation and theory
• Large-scale structure
• Weak gravitational lensing

Education

• PhD in Astronomy, Ohio State University, 2019
• BA in Physics and Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 2013

Employment

• Postdoc, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 2022-
• Postdoc, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, 2019-2022

About Me

I am currently investigating the multiphase circumgalactic medium using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with Prof. Mark Voit and Prof. Brian O'Shea.

I am the author of the Quokka radiation hydrodynamics code, which has demonstrated excellent performance on GPU-based exascale computing architectures.

My previous work in cosmology used Gaussian Process-based emulators of simulations of structure formation to infer cosmological parameters from galaxy-shear cross-correlations on nonperturbative scales using galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).

Research

Precipitation in galactic atmospheres

I have investigated stratified thermal instability in the ICM/CGM to see under what conditions hot gas precipitates, sinks, and accretes on the AGN that heats and self-regulates the galaxy cluster or group atmosphere [Read more...]