Curriculum Vitae
Full CV for download here.
Employment
08/2018 - Current: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Department of Astronomy, Charlottesville, VA
08/2018 - Current: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Department of Chemistry, Charlottesville, VA
08/2019 - Current: Adjunct Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA
09/2015 - 08/2018: Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow (SAO/RG); Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Education
08/2009 - 05/2015: Astronomy PhD Student; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Rackham Predoctoral Fellow
Thesis: Molecular Signposts of the Physics and Chemistry of Planet Formation
Advisor: Edwin A. Bergin
08/2005 - 05/2009: B.S. in Astrophysics; Rice University, Houston, TX
Advisor: Patrick Hartigan
[2008 & 2009 President's Honor Roll]
Awards
UVa Research Award, 2021
Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholar in "Science," 2020
David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow, 2019
Annie Jump Cannon Award, 2018
Ralph B. Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Sciences, 2016
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2015
Hubble Fellowship, 2015
SMA Fellowship, 2015
ITC Fellowship, 2015
AAS Doxsey Travel Prize Runner-Up, 2015
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Recipient, 06/2014-06/2015.
Rackham Conference Travel Grants: 07/2013, 04/2013, 12/2010.
Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant (SMA Observing), 03/2012
IAU 280: The Molecular Universe Poster Prize
Dessler Award for Highest Senior GPA (Undergraduate), 05/2009
Heaps Prize Undergraduate Thesis Award, 05/2009
Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society, Inducted 05/2009
Funding
2020 NASA Astrophysics Theory Program (PI: Cleeves), "Modeling Disk Ionization During Planet Formation"
2020 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Award - "Tracing the Origins of Planet Composition and Diversity"
2019 Packard Fellowship, "The Role of Energetic Processes in Kindling Planet Formation”
2019 NSF AAG (PI: Li/Ramsey, Co-I: Cleeves), "The Thermal and Chemical History of Accreted Pebbles."
2019 NASA APRA (PI: Pineda, Co-I: Cleeves), "ASTHROS - Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths"
Selected Professional Service
2020 - Current // UVa Astronomy Bridge Program Committee
2019 // UVa Astrochemistry Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship Management
2018 - Current // NRAO Users Committee
2018 - Current // Virginia Initiative on Cosmic Origins Management Team
2018 // Origins Space Telescope Red Team
2016-2017 // ITC Colloquium and Seminars Co-Organizer
ApJ, ApJL, A&A, MNRAS, Nature Astronomy, Royal Society Open Science Referee
Selection Committees for NASA ROSES funding, UVa Internal Selections, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Graduate Fellowships, Graduate Admissions, and Telescope TACs (details intentionally withheld).