I'm an Associate Professor in Statistical Data Science at Macquarie University, leading an Astrostatistics Research Group. I research extrasolar planets - planets around other stars - and focus on developing and applying new data science approaches for detecting and characterizing them.
At the moment, I'm most excited about applying differentiable models of physical optics to hardware design and data analysis for exoplanet direct imaging; and using using radio astronomy to study planets' magnetic interactions with their host stars. In the recent past, I worked on a survey of naked-eye stars in Kepler, K2, and TESS, to search for pulsating stars and transiting planets, and on using radiocarbon in tree rings to trace the Sun's history of extreme solar storms.
I completed my doctorate in 2017 at Oxford, and from 2017-20 was a NASA Sagan Fellow at the NYU Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and Center for Data Science. From 2021-2024 I was a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics and DECRA Fellow at the University of Queensland.
Slides for my talks are available here.
