Position Title
Professor
Position Title
Professor
533 Physics Building
Bio
Research Interests
- theoretical astrophysics
- cosmological structure formation: halos, galaxies, stars
- computational methods of cosmological galaxy simulations
- Milky Way, Andromeda, low-mass galaxies in the Local Group
- dynamics of stars, gas, and dark matter in galaxies
- stellar nucleosynthesis and metal enrichment in galaxies
Research Areas
Career History
- University of California, Davis
- Professor 2025 - present
- Associate Professor 2021 - 2025
- Assistant Professor 2016 - 2021
- Caltech-Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow 2013 - 2017
- Moore Prize Scholar – California Institute of Technology
- Carnegie Fellow – The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
- Postdoctoral Research Associate 2010 - 2013
- Yale University, Department of Astronomy
- Research Associate 2005
- Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Los Alamos National Lab
Education and Degree(s)
- Ph.D. in Astrophysics - University of California, Berkeley 2010
- B.S. in Physics - Harvey Mudd College 2005
Honors and Awards
- Defense Science Study Group - Institute for Defense Analysis 2027 - 2028
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) – Biden White House 2025
- Graduate Program Advising & Mentoring Award - UC Davis 2022
- CAREER Award - National Science Foundation 2021
- Hellman Fellow - Society of Hellman Fellows 2019
- Scialog Fellow - Research Corporation, Heising-Simons Foundation 2018, 2019
- Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow - National Academy of Sciences 2013
- N.D. Delegate - National Youth Science Camp 2001
- Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America 1999