I am an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard University.  My research is focused on the study of gamma-ray bursts, explosive and transient astrophysical phenomena, and the generation of magnetic fields in low mass stars and brown dwarfs.  I use observations across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to gamma-rays. 

Formerly, I was a joint Hubble & Carnegie-Princeton postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Carnegie Observatories in 2004-2008.

I received a PhD in Astrophysics from Caltech in 2004, with a thesis focused on multi-wavelength studies of gamma-ray bursts, their host galaxies, and type Ib/c core-collapse supernovae.

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