Education

• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Ph.D. in Astrophysics, "Local Simulations of Magnetized Accretion Disks", 2010

M.S. in Astronomy, 2006

• University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

B.S. in Physics, 2004

Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Fall 2024-present

• Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, 2019-2024

• Senior Research Associate, University of Colorado, 2016-2019

• NASA Sagan Fellow, Southwest Research Institute, 2013-2016

• JILA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Colorado, 2010-2013

Honors and Awards

• Scialog Fellow

• Visiting Scholar, UCSB Kavli Institute

• NASA Sagan Fellow

• NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow

• Virginia Space Grant Consortium Fellow

• University of Illinois James Scholar

• University of Illinois Dean’s List

• National Society of Collegiate Scholars – Phi Beta Kappa Society