PhD Research

I earned my PhD in late 2022 from West Virginia University, where I worked with Dr. Maura McLaughlin. My PhD research mainly focused on pulsar polarization, or how the light from a pulsar is twisted by the interstellar medium as it travels to Earth. I worked with the NANOGrav collaboration and mainly use the Green Bank Telescope for my research. To learn more, check out the video below or feel free to take a look at my PhD thesis.

Undergraduate Research

I got my B.S. in Physics at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. I worked with Dr. Joanna Rankin, an expert in pulsar emission, for all four years. My main project involved pulsar swooshes, which are changes in place where the pulsar emission comes from in two pulsars. To read more about pulsar swooshes, check out our paper and this New Scientist article. For a more general overview of the research process, check out my Twitter thread on this project!

Awards and Honors

Dr. Mohindar S. Seehra Graduate Research Award (May 2022)
NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow (May 2020-May 2021)
Albert D. Crowell Award for Undergraduate Excellence (May 2017)
UVM Sikora Women in Science Research Fellow (Summer 2016)

Talks

Green Bank Observatory Community Zoom, Virtual, December 2021
Stony Brook Astronomy Seminar, Virtual, September 2021
Astronomical League Live, Virtual, June 2021
Astronomy on Tap Baton Rouge, Virtual, March 2021
Howard Astronomical Society Monthly Meeting, Virtual, November 2020
NANOGrav Collaboration Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2020
International Pulsar Timing Array Conference, Pune, India, June 2019
University of Vermont Undergraduate Colloquium, Burlington, VT, October 2019
American Astronomical Society Meeting, January 2017