CV

For a PDF version of my curriculum vitae, visit this link.

Employment

• August 2022 - Present: Assistant Professor
  • Texas A&M University Department of Physics & Astronomy
• October 2021 - July 2022: Senior Fellow
  • CERN, Theoretical Physics Department
• October 2018 - September 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Fermilab, Theoretical Physics Department

Education

• Ph.D. (2018) and M.S. (2015) in Physics, Northwestern University. Advisor: Prof. André de Gouvêa
• B.S. (2013) in Physics & Mathematics, University of Notre Dame. Advisor: Prof. Michael Hildreth

Community Service

• Journal Referee
  • Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Journal of High Energy Physics
• Snowmass 2021
  • Early Career Convener: BSM with Neutrinos & Neutrino Theory topical groups
  • Co-organized mini-workshop on neutrino theory (Sept. 2020)
  • White-paper contribution on self-interacting neutrinos forthcoming.
• Neutrino University 2019
  • Organized a series of nine lectures designed to expose undergraduate students to the breadth of interesting topics in neutrino physics.
• Fermilab Undergraduate Lecture Series 2020
  • Spoke to students who were performing summer research projects through Fermilab on an introduction to particle physics.
• Fermilab Saturday Morning Physics
  • Gave lectures on special relativity in the 2019-2020 sessions to local high-school students.
• KICP & Fermilab Lifelong Learning Institute Lectures
  • October 2019 – Spoke to a broad group of community members about a variety of aspects of neutrinos.
• Physics Opportunities at the Near DUNE Detector Hall (PONDD) 2018
  • December 2018 – Organized conference of 46 talks and 86 registered attendees. Talks all available here.
• Physics & Astronomy Graduate Student Council
  • Designed a structure for graduate student representation within the department of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University. Served as secretary (2016) and the head of the teaching assistant committee (2016-2017).
• Society of Physics Students
  • Within the department of physics at the University of Notre Dame, I acted as Vice President of SPS from 2012-2013.

Honors and Awards

• Fermilab
  • Received a Lab Directed R&D (LDRD) award as a co-investigator on “Accelerator-based Dark Matter Initiatives at Fermilab.”
• Northwestern University
  • Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award (2015-2016), Physical Sciences
  • Fermilab Neutrino Physics Center (NPC) Scholar, Fall 2017
• University of Notre Dame
  • Outstanding Physics Major Award, Notre Dame Department of Physics, Spring 2013
  • George Kolettis Award in Mathematics, Spring 2013

Publications

For an up-to-date list of publications (including DUNE collaboration papers), see my INSPIRE Profile or the PDF version of my CV.

On the publications tab, you can find short summaries of some of my recent papers.

Talks

The PDF version of my CV contains a full list of seminars given and conferences I have attended/spoken at. The talks section of this webpage has slides from several recent presentations, as well as some background information.