Currently, I am a staff scientist at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in the Data, Analysis, and Visualization group . I completed my PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Astrophysical and Planetary Science Department. For my thesis research I used large global plasma models to simulate planetary magnetospheres and examined ion escape processes at Mars as well as terrestrial exoplanets. This has implications for long term atmospheric evolution and potential habitability. I contributed to the global hybrid plasma code RHybrid and volumetric data analysis package yt.
I am also a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow (CSGF) alumn. This is a fantastic fellowship program that changed the course of my graduate career, I highly recommend that all first year grad students doing computational research apply.