I am an associate research scholar at the Princeton University Gravity Initiative. From 2019-2022 I was a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Einstein Fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. I am a leading member of the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, and an elected member of the EHT collaboration Science Board.
I study the extreme environments just outside the event horizons of supermassive black holes, particularly in the galactic center Sgr A* and M87. I use analytic theory and supercomputer simulations to study the flow of plasma around black holes as it spirals toward the event horizon and is launched outward in relativistic jets. To connect theory and simulation to direct observations, I develop new approaches for imaging and modeling black holes with EHT and multi-wavelength data.
I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received a BA in Physics with a secondary concentration in Medieval studies from Carleton College in 2013. I earned my Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2019. At Harvard, I worked at the interdisciplinary Black Hole Initiative and was advised by Prof. Ramesh Narayan.
I am a proud member of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Outlist of LGBTQIA+ members of the astronomical community.
