Research Interests:

• Theoretical/Computational Astrophysics
• Galaxy Morphology and Evolution
• SNe, nucleosynthesis

Education

B.S. in Physics and Mathematics, Morehead State University (2012)
Masters in Physics, University of Kentucky (2017)
PhD in Physics, University of Kentucy (expected, 2019)

Research

I study how disk galaxies (and the stellar bars within them) evolve to produce the varying morphologies seen in the Hubble Fork diagram. I simulate numerical experiments of galaxy systems featuring stellar disks inside Dark Matter (DM) halos. To run the models I use the N-body part of the tree-particle-mesh Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH/N-body) code GIZMO.

I have experience using N-body and SPH codes, high precision computing on various super computers, and extensive use of Python for data analysis and visualization.

Please also see my personal webpage here.

Selected Publications: 

My ads listing is found here.