I'm a graduate student in physics at the University of Chicago and in the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP).  My research is currently focused on revealing the properties of dark matter using observational probes such as gamma-rays and tidal streams.  My PhD thesis advisor is Angela Olinto.

In June I defended my thesis, "Revealing dark matter substructure with anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background" (arXiv:0807.1328), and starting this fall I'll be a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) at the Ohio State University.

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Intensity of gamma-rays from Galactic dark matter substructure (above) and angular power spectrum (below) for an unbiased subhalo radial distribution.  See arXiv:0807.1328 for details.

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