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I am an Assistant Professor of Physics at Winona State University where I teach physics and help prepare future teachers of science. I completed my PhD in Astronomy working in the Submillimeter Astrophysics and Instrumentation group at Cornell University. Previously I was a high school chemistry and physics teacher in Baltimore, MD through Teach For America. After graduate school, I spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.

My research is extreme science. To observe submillimeter radiation--light with wavelengths just shorter than 1 millimeter--we have to go to extreme locations like Mauna Kea, Hawai’i, the Atacama desert in Chile or the South Pole. These locations allow us to get above most of the water vapor in the atmosphere that absorbs submillimeter radiation. We also have to use extreme technologies that operate at just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. These extreme locations and technologies allow us to study extremely massive and bright galaxies in the early Universe and enables us to examine how galaxies have evolved over cosmic time to the produce galaxies we have today, like our own Milky Way