I am an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory, where my work focuses on mission support through the development of observation-based tools for precision orbit determination, timing, and space awareness. My background is in observational astrophysics, with prior research centered on massive star and star-cluster formation.

I received my B.A. in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2012, followed by an M.A. in Physics in May 2014 and a Ph.D. in Physics in May 2018 from Johns Hopkins University.

My doctoral research, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Margaret Meixner, focused on massive star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with particular emphasis on young stellar objects more than 20 times the mass of the Sun forming within their natal molecular clouds. During this work, I discovered the super star cluster H72.97–69.39 in the N79 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a young system that may one day rival the well-known R136 super star cluster in 30 Doradus.

My past research involved analyzing multi-wavelength observations from facilities including Hubble, Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Spitzer, Herschel, Chandra, and Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to characterize stellar populations and gas conditions in forming star clusters.