Olympian Symposium – Star formation in the era of JWST
KOALA-GOALS
I am an observational extragalactic astronomer with broad research interests in the field of galaxy evolution. As a galaxy+AGN enthusiast, I am interested to investigate how galaxies, the basic building block of the universe, have evolved since the beginning of time. Since supermassive black holes in the center of massive galaxies seem to play an important role in their hosts' lives, the detailed interface between them and mergers of massive black holes are as much a driving force of galaxy evolution as the
2020-Present: Assistant Research Astronomer, UC Irvine 2018-2020: Assistant Project Scientist, UC Irvine 2017-2018: Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Irvine 2015-2017: University of California Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Riverside/Irvine 2012-2014: Thirty Meter Telescope Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Riverside
Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa , 2012 M.S., Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa , 2008 B.S., Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology , 2006
Olympian Symposium – Star formation in the era of JWST
KOALA-GOALS