I'm a second-year student at the IfA in Honolulu, working on two research projects. Jonathan Williams and I are investigating how the gas-to-dust ration in protoplanetary disks changes as the disks evolve. I also work with Mike Liu on a search for brown dwarfs in large survey catalogs: Pan-STARRS, WISE, 2MASS, SDSS, ...

I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Geneva, Switzerland. After getting my undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy at Haverford College, I decided to try high school teaching for a couple of years. That quickly turned into fifteen wonderful years at Punahou School, plus a couple of years traveling and living in Boulder, CO. Now I've returned to my first love, astronomy, where I'm enjoying research and the daily intellectual stretch that is modern astronomy.

I'm interested in almost everything astronomical, but particularly protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, planet and star formation, and exoplanets.

Please explore these pages, such as they are, using the links at the top of the page. You can find my CV here.