CV
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Education
| 2014 - 2018 | PhD in Astrophysics, magna cum laude |
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Advised by Andrea Macciò |
| 2012 - 2014 | MSc in Physics |
University of Heidelberg & Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Advised by Andrea Macciò |
| 2008 - 2012 | BSc in Physics | University of Heidelberg Advised by Andreas Quirrenbach & Christian Schwab |
Academic employment
| 12/2024 - present | Research Fellow |
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai'i |
| 11/2022 - 11/2024 | NASA Hubble Fellow |
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai'i |
| 11/2021 - 11/2022 | NASA Hubble Fellow & Lyman Spitzer Jr. Fellow |
Princeton University, NJ |
| 11/2018 - 11/2021 | MPA Independent Research Fellow |
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching Working with Volker Springel, Thorsten Naab & Rüdiger Pakmor |
| 05/2018- 11/2018 | Post-doctoral associate |
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Working with Hans-Walter Rix |
| 03/2014- 05/2014 | Scientific employee |
Landessternwarte, Heidelberg Design of an image slicer for an echelle spectrograph |
| 2014 | Optics laboratory instructor | University or Heidelberg |
| 04/2012 | Research experience in spectrograph design | Yale University Working with Debra Fischer & Christian Schwab |
Grants & fellowships
| 2026 - 2027 | JWST Theory Grant ($140 000) |
University of Hawai'i |
| 2022 - 2023 | Princeton scientific writing fellowship (includes one semester salary) |
Princeton Writing Program |
| 2021 - 2023 | Computing time grant for LYRA suite (>$1.6 million equivalent funding) |
SuperMUC-NG regular project, 40 million CPU hours Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), Germany |
| 2024 - 2026 | Lyman Spitzer Jr. fellowship |
Princeton University, NJ (declined) |
| 2021 - 2024 | NASA Hubble fellowship | Princeton University, NJ |
| 2018 - 2021 | MPA research fellowship | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching |
| 2018 - 2021 | MPCDF computing time (>$800 000 equivalent funding) |
20 million CPU hours Max Planck Computing and Data Facility, Germany |
| 06/2017- 08/2017 | DAAD Rise Germany grant (12-week REU equivalent) |
Hosted student at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
| 2014 - 2018 | Full graduate scholarship from German Research Council (DFG) |
4-year grant at University of Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center "The Milky Way" (DFG, SFB 881, A1) |
| 2014 - 2018 | IMPRS fellowship |
University of Heidelberg International Max Planck Research School |
Teaching
| 2026 | Enizabeth Olsen (BSc student) |
University of Hawai'i, Hilo Research project studying subgrid models and feedback |
| 2023-2025 | Finn Giddings (graduate student) |
University of Hawai'i, Manoa Developed FUV radiation implementation for LYRA |
| Summer 2023 | REU supervisor for Keaton Donaghue (Research Expericence for Undergraduates) |
University of Hawai'i, Hilo |
| Spring 2023 | ASTR 260 - Computational Physics & Astronomy (select lectures) |
University of Hawai'i, Hilo |
| Spring 2022 | Proposal Writing for Quantitative Disciplines (half-term graduate course) |
Princeton University |
| 06/2020- 06/2021 | Alejandra Fresco (Mentored grad student) |
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching MgII stacked detection with SDSS, data processing |
| 06/2017- 08/2017 | Rokas Zemaitis (REU student) |
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Computational and numerical galaxy formation, data processing |
| 2015 | Advanced physics lab instructor |
University of Heidelberg Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and Zernike polynomials |
| 2014 | Undergraduate physics lab instructor |
University of Heidelberg Fourier transformation and Fourier optics in image processing |
Service & outreach
| 2022 | Volunteer at 'Imiloa Astronomy Outreach Center | Hilo, Hawai'i |
| 2019 - 2021 | Galaxy Journal Club Coordinator | MPA, Garching |
| 10/2019 | Public talk for Dark Matter Day | MPA, Garching |
| 04/2017 | Public talk at March for Science | Heidelberg |
| 2016 - 2017 | Equal Opportunity Officer | MPIA, Heidelberg |
| 2014 - 2016 | Graduate Student Representative | MPIA, Heidelberg |
| 06/2015 | Public talk at Open House Day | MPIA, Heidelberg |