Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics

My research focuses on star formation and the interstellar medium. The big questions I hope to answer are what sets the global rate of star formation in gas clouds and galaxies? What determines the mass distribution of newly-formed stars? What processes control the formation of the most massive stars, which are the dominant source of luminosity in the universe? How long do star-forming clouds live, and what ultimately destroys them? I try to answer these questions using a mixture of analytic investigations and numerical simulations.

Academic Bio
PhD in physics: UC Berkeley, 2005
Hubble, Lyman Spitzer, Jr., and Council on Science and Technology Fellow: Princeton University, 2005-2008

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