About
I am a theoretical physicist working on cosmology and particle physics, and in particular on the physics of the early universe.
I joined the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago in September 2025. Before that, I spent three years as a postdoc at the University of Florida’s Institute for Fundamental Theory. I received my Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota in 2022, where I worked with Keith Olive on no-scale supergravity, inflation, and dark matter.
I studied physics with astronomy at the University of Southampton, earning a BSc and an MPhys. During the MPhys, I spent a year doing research with Belinda Wilkes at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Academic path
University of Chicago
KICP Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Florida
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Fundamental Theory
University of Minnesota
Ph.D. in Physics, advised by Keith Olive
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
MPhys research placement with Belinda Wilkes
University of Southampton
BSc and MPhys, Physics with Astronomy
Mentoring and teaching
Cosmological particle production
With Jingyuan Wang and Rocky Kolb, I worked on gravitational particle production in multifield inflation and its implications for the origin of dark matter. Read the paper
Gravitational waves from cosmic strings
Work with Christos Litos and collaborators investigates gravitational waves from long strings and loops. Read the paper
Machine-learned symmetries
I worked with graduate students Roy Forestano, Alex Roman, and Eyup Unlu on work relating machine learning to continuous symmetries and Lie algebra structure. The collaboration produced four papers in 2023, one in Machine Learning: Science and Technology and three in Physics Letters B.
Teaching
At the University of Florida, I was a guest instructor for undergraduate Classical Mechanics and the graduate Standard Model course. At the University of Minnesota, I was a teaching assistant for introductory physics, undergraduate Quantum Mechanics, and graduate Advanced Quantum Mechanics. I received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2020.
Scientific community
University of Chicago
KICP seminar organizer since 2026 and journal club organizer 2025–2026.
University of Florida and beyond
Organizer of The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics (2023), seminar and journal club organizer at Florida from 2022 to 2025, and session chair for Cosmology and the Early Universe at SUSY 2025.
Peer review
Referee for journals including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, JHEP, JCAP, and Physics Letters B.
Full record
My positions, publications, talks, teaching, and service are all in the CV. CV and contact