About Me

I am a physicist currently researching the foundations of nonequilibrium statistical physics and its applications to biological and other systems. I attended Brown University in Providence, RI, from which I graduated Magna cum Laude with a double major in physics and mathematics. While at Brown, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant for the particle astrophysics group, run by Dr. Richard Gaitskell, as part of the photomultiplier tube testing program for the LZ dark matter collaboration. In 2018, I had a Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) researching quantum mechanical applications of quantum computing under the direction of Dr. Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Lab. In 2019, I wrote my senior thesis on quantum chaos with Dr. Antal Jevicki. After Brown, I attended Stony Brook University, where I received my PhD in 2024 as a student of Dr. Ken Dill, writing my dissertation on applications of nonequilibrium driving forces to the study of the origin of life. I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate in Ken's group at the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology.

Awards and Funding

2024 Max Dresden Prize for Outstanding Theoretical Physics Thesis, Stony Brook Physics Department
2019 R. Bruce Lindsay Prize for Excellence in Physics, Brown University Physics Department
2018 Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention, Barry Goldwater Foundation
2018 Henry Parker Manning Prize Examination First Place, Brown University Mathematics Department
2017-2019 Charlotte Gutfleish and Frances Sorrow Endowed Scholarship, Brown University
2016-2019 Thomas R. 1977 and Cynthia M. Reusché 1977 Endowed Scholarship, Brown University
2016 Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, Brown University