I am a graduate student studying physics and astronomy at the University of California, Santa Cruz under my advisor Tesla Jeltema. My main interests are in observational cosmology - the study of the structure, evolution, and origin of the universe by sticking a big camera on an even larger telescope and looking up!

I am a member of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), an international collaboration of hundreds of scientists investigating the dynamics and large-scale structure of the universe using multiple observationalprobes. We do this by taking hundreds of thousands of images of the Southern sky at the 4-meter Victor Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in central Chile. Check out our newest publications here!

I spend most of my time building statistical models and running large simulations to understand how subtle systematics affect our cosmological results. Check out my work on Balrog, an image simulation tool that characterizes measurement biases by injecting an ensemble of fake objects into real images. Lately I’ve been working on a new DES clusters cosmology pipeline that quickly evalutates millions of high-dimensional integration samples using CosmoSIS. Or take a look at my github account for all my latest projects!

I am also a committee representative for Early Career Scientists (ECS), a group of students, postdocs, and research fellows within DES. We provide a space where the career interests and concerns of younger scientists are discussed and regularly meet with DES leadership express ECS concerns. We also plan ECS-related activities at collaboration meetings including career panels, application and professional skill workshops, and biannual ECS drinks!

I have been lucky to have had many supportive mentors along my (still early!) scientific career, particularly Tesla Jeltema at UCSC, Phil Marshall at SLAC National Laboratory, and Jesus Pando at DePaul University.

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