About me

I am a computational plasma physicist and received my Ph.D. in Physics and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2024. During my time as a graduate student, I worked with Prof. Alec Thomas at the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, and ultimately graduated with a dissertation titled “On the Role of Ionization Physics in Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions.” I am currently a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan designing new tools and algorithms for kinetic codes to model the evolution of photoionized electrons in plasmas.

Research Interests

My current research interests are in developing different physics packages and algorithms that can be included in various large-scale scientific projects. Currently my work is focused on particle-in-cell (PIC) and other kinetic codes used to model plasmas. I have prior experience creating a collisional ionization package included in the PIC code Osiris, developed by GoLP-IST and UCLA.