I am an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Las Cumbres Observatory, operating out of the University of California, Santa Barbara. I received my Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2021.

I seek out the most extreme environments in the Universe to test the laws of physics under conditions no laboratory can reproduce. By studying black holes and supernovae, I use the Universe’s most violent phenomena to explore the behavior of matter, energy, and spacetime in the strong-field regime. I contributed to the first and second black hole images with the Event Horizon Telescope and lead efforts to understand core-collapse supernovae across all types, from short-plateau and Type IIb to superluminous events.

Through projects like the Global Supernova Project and the upcoming Rubin Observatory, I develop methods to extract fundamental physics using the explosive deaths of massive stars. With the BHEX mission, I help advance the science case for space-based VLBI, aiming to detect and characterize the elusive photon ring—a key observable in the strong-field regime of general relativity.