Welcome

I am an astrophysicist and currently a postdoctoral fellow and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. Previously, I was a CfA Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Before that, I received my PhD in Physics and Astronomy from Northwestern University in 2017.

I am interested how planetary systems, including both our solar system and systems around other stars, form and evolve. As a dynamicist, my research generally a focuses on understanding how various physical processes are inscribed in the orbital arrangements of planets and small bodies. I also develop open-source scientific software.

Miscellania

• I’ve gathered some info on the history of N-body simulations here.
• The page for CITA’s Geometry of Physics reading group is here.
• Here’s a Mathematica notebook on the eccentric Kozai-Lidov mechanism.
• Here’s some work on sonficiation