Research Interests

    Dark energy; Cosmological parameter estimation; Gravitational lensing; Dark matter; Galaxy formation;

    Early Universe cosmology; Novel applications of statistical and computational methods

Current Position

    Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Prize Post-doctoral Fellowship, UC Davis, 02/2012 - present

     and

    Post-doctoral Research Staff, Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 08/2010 - present

Previous Employment

    Post-doctoral Research Associate, Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University, 10/2008 - 08/2010

Education

    Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Davis, 2008

    Advisor: Professor Lloyd Knox

    Thesis: Cosmological constraints from surveys of the weak lensing of galaxies

    M.S. Physics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2005

    Advanced to Ph.D. candidacy

    B.S. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003

    with High Distinction in the curriculum

Teaching Experience

    Teaching assistant, Introductory physics, Rutgers, Fall 2003 - Spring 2005

    Teaching assistant, “Introduction to Physics Research”, UIUC, Spring 2003

Awards and Honors

   Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Prize Post-doctoral Fellowship offer, 2011

   Excellence in Publication award, LLNL Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, 2011

    Outstanding Research and Best Poster Presentation award, LLNL internal, 2011

    British Council Researcher Exchange Programme award, 2007

    Richard J. Plano Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Rutgers, 2004

    Outstanding Senior Thesis (theory), UIUC Department of Physics, 2003

    Lorella M. Jones Fellowship, UIUC Department of Physics, 2002

Publications (separate page)

Selected Invited Talks

   UC Santa Cruz cosmology seminar, February 2012

   UC Davis cosmology seminar, October 2011

    Stanford Astronomy Seminar, May 2011

    Future of Astrocomputing Conference, San Diego Supercomputing Center, December 2010

    University of Pennsylvania cosmology journal club, January 2010

    UC Davis cosmology seminar, December 2009

    Durham Astronomy Seminar, October 2008

    Los Alamos National Laboratory Cosmology Seminar, August 2008

    University College London Astronomy Seminar, April 2008

    NASA JPL astrophysics seminar, January 2008

    KIPAC tea talk, KICP open group seminar, UIUC astronomy seminar, December 2007

    Los Alamos National Laboratory Cosmology Seminar, September 2007

Professional Activities

    Referee for The Astrophysical Journal, Astrophysical Journal Letters,

        Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and MNRAS Letters.

    Served on a review panel for the National Science Foundation AAG program.

    Member of the American Astronomical Society and the American Physical Society.

    Contributor to the Euclid ESA mission proposal “Yellow book” (to establish the science case of the mission - 2009).

    Member of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Weak Lensing Science Collaboration.

References

   Dr. Tony Tyson, +1 530 752 3830          (Current supervisor)

    Dr. Carlos Frenk, +44 (0) 191 33 43641 (Previous supervisor)

    Dr. Shaun Cole, +44 (0) 191 33 43593   (Previous supervisor)

    Dr. Scot Olivier, +1 925 423 6483          (Current supervisor)

    Dr. Lloyd Knox, +1 530 754 7532          (Ph.D. advisor)

    Dr. Bob Becker, +1 530 752 6921

    Dr. Sarah Bridle, +44 (0) 207 679 7138