I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator center. My research with the IRIS Reaction Spectroscopy Facility probes the structure of exotic nuclei and key nuclear reactions for astrophysical processes.

I took my first physics class at NC School of Science and Mathematics. I earned a B.S. in physics at North Carolina State University in May 2019. As an undergraduate, I conducted nuclear physics research for 2 years with Dr. Richard Longland, served as editor-in-chief of Nubian Message, and sang in Acappology.

I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. I was a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and was co-advised by Dr. Catherine Deibel and Dr. Jeff Blackmon in the experimental nuclear physics group.