About Me
.Since 2017 I have been an Assistant Professor at American Public University. I received my Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. Before that I graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Astronomy and a B.A. in Physics.
I was born and raised in sunny Gainesville, Florida (Go Gators!), then moved to the wonderful city of Madison, Wisconsin for school and I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my husband and son.
My research focusses on the formation mechanisms and properties of stars that do not follow standard evolutionary tracks, e.g. blue stragglers and sub-subgiants. I use high-resolution spectroscopy to characterize these "strange" stellar systems, determine binary properties, and mine their surface abundances for clues to how they formed.
As a graduate student I worked on the radial-velocity survey within the WIYN Open Cluster Study. This survey has 100,000+ spectra on about 20,000 stars in 14 open clusters. Through this work I obtained extensive observing experience using the Hydra Multi-Object Spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5 m telescope and was awarded over 80 nights of observing on this wonderful telescope.
I was born and raised in sunny Gainesville, Florida (Go Gators!), then moved to the wonderful city of Madison, Wisconsin for school and I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my husband and son.
My research focusses on the formation mechanisms and properties of stars that do not follow standard evolutionary tracks, e.g. blue stragglers and sub-subgiants. I use high-resolution spectroscopy to characterize these "strange" stellar systems, determine binary properties, and mine their surface abundances for clues to how they formed.
As a graduate student I worked on the radial-velocity survey within the WIYN Open Cluster Study. This survey has 100,000+ spectra on about 20,000 stars in 14 open clusters. Through this work I obtained extensive observing experience using the Hydra Multi-Object Spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5 m telescope and was awarded over 80 nights of observing on this wonderful telescope.
