Research

The majority of my early research in Astronomy has been observational in nature, and the bulk of that is concentrated in Stellar Astronomy. In terms of observational experience, I have been involved with three surveys: A Short-Period Binary Survey (Prof. Rucinski, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), a Shell Star and a Nearby Star Survey (Prof. Garrison, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

More recently I have worked on numerical studies. For my Honours Thesis, I looked at gravitationally scattered dust/planetessimals as a possible source for extrasolar meteorites (Prof. Murray, CITA, Toronto, Ontario).

In another study, I simulated observations with ALMA and I looked at the distinguishability of some simple star formation models (Prof. Johnstone, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada).

I worked for a year modelling PSFs for the Thirty Meter Telescope Project and detection probabilities of high-redshift galaxies, as well as assessing potential Astronomical sites for the TMT (Prof. Carlberg, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

I just finished work on studying β Pictoris with secular evolutions models for my MSc (Prof. Hahn, Saint Mary's Unversity, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada).

With regards to my own personal research, I am working on a dynamical study of planetary systems.

Here is a link to a small collection of radio shows that I have participated on CFRC 101.9 FM at Queen's University.