Hello and welcome! I am a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Institution for Science | Earth and Planets Laboratory. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, in Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck’s group. In August 2021, I graduated with my Ph.D. from Boston University under the guidance of Prof. Catherine Espaillat. Before that, I did my bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan with Prof. Nuria Calvet.

I study the disks of gas and dust that surround young stars and are the birthplaces of exoplanets. Specifically, I focus on the composition and structure of the inner disk and how populations of disks evolve using observations from space-based (including JWST and Herschel) and ground-based telescopes (including the Very Large Telescope, Lowell Discovery Telescope, Gemini South, and ALMA). Recently, I have started extending these observations down to disks around planetary-mass companions, which may be the sites of moon formation. The aim of my work is to understand the conditions where planets and moons form to understand the diversity of exoplanets and the formation of our own Solar System bodies. More information is available on my Research page and the illustration below provides an overview of my research.