Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009

Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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I am currently an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), working at the Chandra X-ray Center in the ACIS Operations Team. My main research interests are merging galaxy clusters and the physics of the intracluster medium (ICM), a hot, magnetized plasma that comprises the bulk of the cluster's baryonic material. The ICM radiates in X-rays, and telescopes such as Chandra and XMM-Newton have revealed a wide array of interesting phenomena.