Work

I'm a scientist in the X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA GSFC. I'm the NASA Project Scientist for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, XRISM. XRISM launched on September 7th, 2023, and provides high spectral resolution (<5 eV) in the soft X-ray band from about 0.3-12 keV. I do research as well, see the Research button, below, for more.

Graduate School: North Carolina State, 2004-2010
Research Post-doc: North Carolina State, 2010-2012
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, NASA GSFC, 2012-2015
Research Scientist, USRA/NASA GSFC, 2015-2017
Support Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute, 2017-2018
NASA Civil Servant, Research Astrophysicist, GSFC, 2018 -

My full CV can be downloaded here PDF

My refereed publications can be found on my ADS Bibliography, here.

Bio

I was born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, and attended Florida State University, graduating with a B.S. in Physics in 2004. I earned my Ph.D. in Physics in 2010 from North Carolina State University under the advisement of Drs. Stephen Reynolds and Kazimierz Borkowski. My thesis involved a lot of things, but can mostly be boiled down to observations and modeling of supernova remnants in the mid-IR with Spitzer. I moved to the Washington, DC area in 2012 and worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for five years before transferring to STScI in 2017. I moved back to Goddard in 2018.

Background pic: Rock Creek Park in DC, February 2017