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Gainesville, FL, US

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Gainesville, Florida, United States

- Graded homework assignments, solar observing project, held twice-weekly office hours for AST 3018: Astronomy and Astrophysics I (fall 2021, spring 2022)

- Schedule meetings, record meeting minutes, and collect contractor hours worked for payroll

St. Paul, Minnesota

- Helped students complete problem sets, study for exams, and write lab reports for introductory physics courses

St. Paul, Minnesota

- Helped students learn how to operate the Macalester Observatory and reduce data from the VLA (spring 2020)- Held thrice-weekly office hours for an upper-level astrophysics theory course (spring 2019)- Held weekly office hours and graded problem sets for an introductory astronomy course (spring 2018)

St. Paul, Minnesota

- Graded problem sets weekly for PHYS 468: Statistical Mechanics (spring 2020)- Graded problem sets every other week for introductory physics courses in mechanics, electromagnetism, and modern physics (fall 2017, spring 2018)

St. Paul, Minnesota

- Built costumes for performances throughout the semester - Shows include The Rocky Horror Show (fall 2019), Twelfth Night (spring 2020, cancelled), and dance concerts

St. Paul, Minnesota

- On clear nights, shared the universe with local folks of all ages using the Macalester Observatory's telescope along with other preceptors - Researched potential observing targets beforehand

Green Bank, West Virginia

- Contributed to design of a new ultra-wideband receiver for pulsar timing with the GBT - Assisted with characterization and testing of feed components (hybrid coupler, notch filters) - Continued work on project for an honors thesis successfully defended in spring 2020 - Advisor was Steve White

St. Paul, Minnesota

- Gave written feedback on paper drafts for a first-year seminar course called "The Cosmos"- Held weekly office hours to assist students with problem sets and written assignments

Rochester, New York

- Developed first-order correction algorithm in Python for signal-dependent interpixel capacitance in infrared detectors for use on NEOCam spacecraft- Presented poster on research at 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society- Advisors were Dr. Judy Pipher and Craig McMurtry

St. Paul, MN

- Led labs utilizing scanning tunneling microscopy and gamma ray spectroscopy- Set up instruments for other labs

Middletown, Connecticut

- Imaged and modeled three protoplanetary/transitional disks (V4046 Sgr, MWC 480, and DM Tau) using data from ALMA- Wrote a program in Python to check the calibration of our data, used Miriad to make images- Advisor was Dr. Kevin Flaherty (now at Williams College)

St. Paul, Minnesota

- Vacuumed carpeted floors and cleaned glass surfaces in science building on solo day shift- Cleaned classrooms with fellow student custodians- Participated in outdated journal recycling project at library

Master Of Science - Ms, Astronomy

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Physics (Honors; Astronomy Emphasis), Mathematics (Applied And Statistics)

Activities and Societies: High Power Rocketry, WMCN, Physics and Astronomy Club

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Astronomy