About Me


I'm a fourth year physics graduate student working for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory with Professor Albrecht Karle. My general interests include neutrino physics and high-energy astrophysics. At IceCube I focus on searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos. I recently completed a point source analysis using the first year of data from the completed detector, and I am currently using starting muon tracks to lower IceCube's energy threshold for sources in the southern sky. I'm also closely involved with muon track reconstruction, data reduction and processing, and detector calibration.

I'm also very interested in teaching and education. Last year I worked with Professor Peter Timbie to implement and assess "flip-teaching" techniques in an introductory physics course. Before joining IceCube, I was a secondary school physics teacher at the American School of Quito, Ecuador, where I taught physics to 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. Before that, I did my undergraduate at Dartmouth College, where I majored in Physics and minored in Environmental Studies.