Welcome to my little part of the interwebs! I’m a research scientist at Caltech and a member of the High Energy Astrophysics Group. My scientific interests are pretty varied within astrophysics (spanning supernova remnants, X-ray binaries, solar physics, prompt emission from supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, etc), though in graduate school I worked on Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs), which are high energy emission (think positron and electron beams) associated with electrical discharges in lightning.
Starting in ~2020 I became the Project Scientist for the UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX) which was selected via the NASA 2021 Medium Explorer call for launch. After UVEX transitioned to Phase B in 2024 I transitioning to the taking on the role of Payload Manager for UVEX.
I am also a Principal Mission Scientist on NuSTAR (you can watch talk about NuSTAR via a virtual von Karman Talk at JPL). Two main side quests on NuSTAR are the NuSTAR Stray Cats and NuSTAR SINGS (Search for INteresting Gamma-ray Signals) Projects, both of which leverage existing NuSTAR data to enhance the science return from the mission.
On the hardware side, I’m the PI for an X-ray detector effort at Caltech which is developing next-generation hard X-ray detectors for use on future missions such as The High Energy Explorer.
You want to know more about me? My LinkedIn profile is mostly kept to date and I also have a science CV for your perusal that is up-to-date as of May 2024. The full list of my scientific publications can be found via this search query on the ADS.
You can find me on github, where I mostly contribute to the NuSTAR public repo.
Here for something other than science? I sometimes write here (though not in a while since proposals have consumed much of my free energy for putting words down on paper).