Curriculum Vitae
Publications: Google Scholar Record
Employment
08/2024 - current: Associate Professor, University of Virginia Department of Astronomy and Department of Chemistry, Charlottesville, VA
08/2018 - 08/2024: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Department of Astronomy and Department of Chemistry, Charlottesville, VA
08/2019 - Current: Adjunct Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA
09/2015 - 08/2018: Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow (SAO/RG); Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Education
08/2009 - 05/2015: Astronomy PhD Student; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Rackham Predoctoral Fellow
Thesis: Molecular Signposts of the Physics and Chemistry of Planet Formation
Advisor: Edwin A. Bergin
08/2005 - 05/2009: B.S. in Astrophysics; Rice University, Houston, TX
Advisor: Patrick Hartigan
[2008 & 2009 President's Honor Roll]
Awards
Jefferson Scholar Foundation 2025 Award for Excellence in Teaching
Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize - 2025
2024 UVA Deans Research Fellow (link)
Cottrell Scholar, 2022
Scialog Fellow, 2022
UVa Research Excellence Award, 2021
Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholar in "Science," 2020
David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow, 2019
Annie Jump Cannon Award, 2018
Ralph B. Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Sciences, 2016
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2015
Hubble Fellowship, 2015
SMA Fellowship, 2015
ITC Fellowship, 2015
AAS Doxsey Travel Prize Runner-Up, 2015
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Recipient, 06/2014-06/2015.
Rackham Conference Travel Grants: 07/2013, 04/2013, 12/2010.
Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant (SMA Observing), 03/2012
IAU 280: The Molecular Universe Poster Prize
Dessler Award for Highest Senior GPA (Undergraduate), 05/2009
Heaps Prize Undergraduate Thesis Award, 05/2009
Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society, Inducted 05/2009
Selected Professional Service
2022 - 2025 // Astronomy Dept. Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2020 - Current // UVa Astronomy Bridge Program Committee
2019 - Current // UVa Astrochemistry Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship Management
2018 - Current // Virginia Initiative on Cosmic Origins Management Team
2018 - 2022 // NRAO Users Committee
2016-2017 // ITC Colloquium and Seminars Co-Organizer
ApJ, ApJL, A&A, MNRAS, Nature Astronomy, Science, Royal Society Open Science Referee
Selection Committees for NASA ROSES funding, UVa Internal Selections, National Postdoctoral Fellowships, UVA and National Graduate Fellowships, Graduate Admissions, and Telescope TACs (details intentionally withheld).