Academia

I have worked on and been involved in a variety of really cool projects and activities during my time in academia:

Physics

  • Master's Thesis: Neutrino Transport in Core-Collapse Supernovae (View PDF)

    • During my time at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, I wrote a piece of software in Fortran called NODALEP (Neutrino Optical Depth and Luminosity Estimation Program) that allowed me to perform a study comparing the neutrino treatment of Agile-IDSA and that presented by H.-Th. Janka in his 2001 paper (Conditions for Shock Revival by Neutrino Heating in Core-Collapse Supernovae). IDSA was substituted with NODALEP (after discretization of Janka's relations) as the default neutrino treatment for the energetic feedback (charged current & neutral current interactions, among others) into the Agile hydrodynamics code and comparative studies were performed to gauge NODALEP's efficacy in supporting neutrino-driven shock revival.

    • Suite written exclusively for my Master's thesis with Dr. Almudena Arcones at TU Darmstadt

    • Source code for analysis: NODALEP

    • Master's Talk: (View PDF)

  • Bachelor's Thesis: Nonlinear Dynamics & the Intermittancy Route to Chaos (View PDF)

    • My fascination with nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory led me to write my undergraduate thesis at UC Santa Cruz on the subject. I explored and studied the Lorenz equations, nonlinear stability analysis, and its application to ferroconvection (in the search for physical manifestations of nonlinearity):


Aerospace Engineering

Completed coursework to meet PhD requirements at The University of Alabama:

GES 551 - Matrix and Vector Analysis

AEM 500 - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics

AEM 513 - Compressible Flow

AEM 528 - Space Propulsion

Expected completion: 2026

Mathematics

At UC Santa Cruz, I was lucky enough to have taken courses and worked with some of the most brilliant minds in applied and pure mathematics: