2013- present Submillimeter Array (SMA) Postdoctoral
Fellow
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 2013 Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, Adviser: John Bally “The Structure, Kinematics, and
Evolution of Massive Star and Cluster Forming Regions” 2008 M.A. Astronomy, Boston University,Adviser: Jim Jackson 2006 B.S. Physics & Astronomy,
University of Massachusetts Amherst summa cum laude, Advisers: Min S. Yun
& Grant Wilson
Honors and Awards:
2015
Templeton Grant, $25,000 exploratory grant for the
BiteScis outreach program
2015 AAS International Travel Grant, to attend the
meeting of the International Astronomical Union
2013 SMA
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics 2013 SUPA Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship (declined), University of St. Andrews 2012 Chance Irick Cooke Fellowship,
to one exceptional graduate student each year, CU-Boulder 2008 Astronomy Teaching Fellow of the
Year Award, Boston University 2007 National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship 2006 Presidential Fellowship,
to one exceptional incoming graduate student, Boston University
Selected Successful Observing Proposals:
Co-I, 20 hours, Atacama Large
Millimeter Array (ALMA) 2015 “A Systematic ALMA Survey of
the Most Massive Starless Clumps within 5kpc"
Co-I, 9 hours, Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) 2015 “Uncovering the Early
Formation of the Most Massive Stars"
PI, 60 hours, IRAM 30-m 2015 “Mapping the Bones of the
Milky Way"
PI, 13 hours, Very Large Array (VLA) 2015 “The Importance of Filamentary
Accretion Flows in Forming Massive Star Clusters"
PI, 500 hours, Submillimeter Array (SMA) 2014 “The SMA Legacy Survey of the
Central Molecular Zone"
PI, 45 hours, Submillimeter Array (SMA) 2014 “Hidden Gems: Uncovering the
Nature of Massive Starless Clumps"
Co-I, 200 hours, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) 2014 “H2CO Thermometry of the CMZ
to understand its low star formation rate"
PI, 3 hours, Green Bank Telescope (GBT) 2014 “The Structure and Kinematics
of our Nearest Massive Proto-Cluster"
Co-I, 12 hours, Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) 2013 “Gas temperature and
kinematics as key inputs for star formation theory: Cores and
turbulence in the massive protocluster W51"
Co-I, 60 hours, Arecibo Observatory 2010 “Densitometry of young
star-forming complexes throughout the Galaxy"
Co-I, 120 hours, Green Bank Telescope (GBT) 2010 “Densitometry of young
star-forming complexes throughout the Galaxy"
PI, 7 hours, Very Large Array (VLA) 2010 “Sub-parsec temperature
structure of a quiescent and an active clump in an IRDC"
PI, 100 hours, Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (HHT) 2009 “Tracing the dense molecular
gas in Infrared Dark Clouds with the HHT"
Selected Talks:
Invited Review Talks:
• Sexten Center for Astrophysics, Keynote Speaker, Mass Assembly from
Clouds to Clusters, 2014
• BASH Symposium, University of Texas Austin, 2013
Invited Conference Presentations and
Colloquiua:
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Astronomy Coloquium, 2015
• IAU ‘Scale-Free Processes’ Focus Meeting, Honolulu, 2015
• University of Florida, Star & Planet Formation Workshop, 2015
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory Filaments Workshop,
Charlottesville, 2014
• MIT Haystack Observatory Colloquium, 2014
• Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium, 2014
• American Museum of Natural History Colloquium, 2014
• University of Florida, Seminar, 2013
• University of Florida, Star & Planet Formation Workshop, 2013
• Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, R&G Talk, 2012
Talks During Invited Visits:
• University of Arizona Tucson FLASH and Origins Talks, 2015
• Yale University, Seminar, 2014
• University of Texas Austin, Seminar, 2012
• MPIA Heidelberg, Germany, Seminar, 2011
• European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany, Seminar, 2011
• INAF-IFSI, Rome, Italy, Seminar, 2011
Contributed Talks:
• UMass Star Formation Workshop, UMass Amherst, 2015
• The Olympian Symposium on Star Formation, Paralia Katerini’s, Greece,
2014
• Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, R&G Talk, 2014 & 2013
• Galactic Scale Star Formation Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, 2012
• Milky Way 2011 Conference, Rome, Italy, 2011
• JILA Lunch Talk, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2012 & 2011
