Welcome!
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow studying galaxies at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) of the University of Hawai'i. Previously, I was a NASA Hubble fellow at the IfA. Before that, I was at Princeton University. After my PhD, I was an independent research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, Germany.

My research interests include all things galaxies: their formation in the nascent Universe, their merging and assembly, their star formation and inter-stellar medium. As small, ancient and dark matter-dominated systems, dwarf galaxies are a unique and scientifically valuable population. However, the study of dwarf galaxies at the faint end has been impeded by a severe lack of data beyond the Local Group. Euclid, JWST and Rubin, among others, are set to end this impediment and launch us into a new era of galaxy formation exploration. To place this wealth of data into a physically meaningful, theoretical context, I have been developing a high-resolution cosmological simulation with detailed small-scale physics treatments.
The galaxy formation model is called LYRA and runs within the framework of the cosmological hydrodynamic simulation code AREPO. Among various changes, it simulates galaxy formation and includes a multi-phase ISM, individual stars and resolved supernovae.

Get in touch with me if you are interested in my simulations! I am happy to provide the simulations for new analysis projects or to perform certain analysis myself "on-demand" for observational comparisons. Also get in touch if you are interested in collaborating!