About Me

 

You can look at my CV, if that helps.


I did my graduate work at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Leo Blitz with a lot of guidance from Alberto Bolatto. I used the BIMA millimeter interferometer (since fused with OVRO into CARMA), the Kitt Peak 12m (kind of the elder statesman of mm-wave astronomy, still kicking), and the Spitzer Space Telescope. I also got the chance to observe at UC’s Lick Observatory, the SEST telescope in Chile, the Green Bank Telescope, the WIYN optical telescope on Kitt Peak, and the JCMT submillimeter telescope on Mauna Kea.


I’m presently in my first postdoctoral appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA). MPIA overlooks Heidelberg (Germany), which is about an hour south of Frankfurt. Heidelberg is a very old university town with a sort of famous barrel. Most of my time is spent working with Fabian Walter and the THINGS team on issues related to the ISM, star formation, and feedback in nearby galaxies. I spend a lot of time these days observing at the IRAM 30m (in southern Spain). I’m also working on projects using the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope, the APEX telescope in Chile, and data from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes.