I am a physicist doing research in gravitational-wave astronomy. I am a Research Associate Professor of Physics and the Director of the Open Source Program Office at Syracuse University. I am a member of the Syracuse University Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics. I also have an adjunct appointment in physics at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Previously, I have been a High Performance Computing Facilitator at UMass Dartmouth, a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany, and a postdoc at the University of Maryland. I received my bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in physics from Syracuse University. My research is focused on analyzing gravitational waves from black holes and neutron stars. Through these observations I hope to answer fundamental questions about the universe, such as: What happens near a black hole? What does matter do under extremely high pressures?
When not doing physics, I enjoy running and hiking (if you couldn’t tell from the pictures). My love for the outdoors stems from growing up in Corinth, NY — a small town in the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York. I am also a history buff, a bit of a news junkie, and love anything aerospace related (I even named my cat Apollo).
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