Research

Using Recently Quenched High-redshift Galaxies to Study Galaxy Evolution

Currently, I am studying how high-redshift galaxies “quench,” or stop star formation, with advisors Dr. Kate Rowlands, Dr. Katey Alatalo, and Professor Tim Heckman.

A JWST Library of Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions

I wrote my senior thesis with Professor Daniel Eisenstein and Dr. Ben Johnson using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). I constructed a carefully curated library of spectral energy distributions (SEDs), which will be needed for photometric redshift templates and other SED references.

Building the molecular cloud population: the role of cloud mergers

As an undergraduate, I worked with Professor Alyssa Goodman and Dr. Sarah Jeffreson at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I studied the role of mergers in building the molecular cloud population of a Milky Way-like galaxy, using outputs from a high-resolution simulation in the moving-mesh code Arepo. I am the first author of a paper that was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and I presented my work at the AAS conference in January 2023. The paper is available here.