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Curriculum Vitae (downloadable pdf)

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics, UConn

Prior Appointments

    Hubble Fellow, Penn State (sponsor: Niel Brandt)    9/2013-8/2016

    CANDELS/DEEP Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz (supervisors: Sandy Faber, David Koo)    9/2010-8/2013

    Graduate Researcher, University of Arizona (advisor: Chris Impey)                                7/2004-8/2010

    NSF/JSPS Summer Research Fellow, Ehime University (advisor: Yoshi Taniguchi)    6/2008-8/2008

    Undergraduate Researcher, Penn State (advisor: Don Schneider)                                  1/2002/6/2004

Education

    2010 Ph.D University of Arizona, Astronomy, Thesis: Supermassive Black Hole Activity in the

        Cosmic Evolution Survey

    2004 B.S. Penn State University, Schreyer Honors, Astronomy, summa cum laude, Senior Project:

        Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    2004 B.S. Penn State University, Physics, summa cum laude

Successful Grants and Proposals (selected)

    2015 co-PI, NSF AAP: The First Multi-Object Reverberation Mapping Survey: Transforming Our

        Knowledge of Distant Black Hole Demographics, $340k

    2015 co-I, HST proposal: The CANDELS Lyman-alpha Emission At Reionization (CLEAR) Experiment

        130 orbits, $12k (as co-I)

    2013 PI, Hubble Fellowship: The Physics Behind Galaxy / Black Hole Coevolution

    2013 PI, Keck proposal: Spatial Maps of SFR, Kinematics, and Line Ratios of z~1.5 Galaxies

        from Multi-PA / Multi-Slit MOSFIRE Spectra, 3 nights

    2013 PI, Lick proposal: Spectrophotometric Monitoring of Quasar Outflows, 4 nights

    2012 PI, HST archive proposal: Do Typical Galaxies in Adolescence Already Host Growing Black

        Holes?, $90k

    2012 co-PI, Keck proposal: A MOSFIRE Survey of z~2 Emission-Line Galaxies, 2.5 nights

    2011 PI, Lick proposal: Host Galaxies of Very Hard X-ray Selected AGNs, 4 nights

    2011 PI, Keck proposal: Connecting AGN Winds to Galactic Feedback, 1 night

    2011 PI, Lick proposal: Testing RIAFs in AGNs with Polarimetry, 3 nights

    2010 PI, Subaru proposal: Optically Dull AGN: Obscured, Diluted, or Radiatively Inefficient, 2 nights

    2010 PI, MMT & Bok proposal: SMBH Masses with Reverbation Mapping, 14 nights

    2010 co-PI, HST proposal: WFC3/IR Spectroscopy of the Highest Redshift Black Hole Candidates,

        32 orbits

    2009 PI, NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Grant, $35k

    2009 PI, Bok proposal: Environmental Effects on Star Formation Activity in Galaxies at z = 0.35 and

        z = 0.76, 6 nights

    2008 PI, NSF/JSPS East Asia & Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship, $10k

    2007-8 co-PI, Magellan & MMT proposal: COSMOS: The Coevolution of High Redshift Galaxies

        and Supermassive Black Holes, 25 nights

Observing Experience

    HST ACS and WFC3 imaging, WFC3 grism spectroscopy

    Keck 10 m 13 nights OSIRIS IFU (AO), DEIMOS, NIRSPEC & MOSFIRE spectrographs

    Subaru 8.2 m 2 nights FOCAS spectropolarimetry

    Magellan 6.5 m 14 nights IMACS multi-object slit spectrograph

    MMT 6.5 m 10 nights Hectospec multi-object fiber spectrograph

    Shane 3.0 m 11 nights KAST spectroscopy and imaging polarimetry

    Bok 2.3 m 10 nights 90prime imaging camera

Honors & Awards

    2016 Marie Curie Fellowship (declined)

    2013 Hubble Fellowship

    2010 Steward Observatory Outstanding Research Award

    2008-2009 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, Papadoupoulos Scholar

    2004,2005 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

    2000-2004 Schreyer Honors College Scholar

    2001-2004 Pennsylvania Science and Technology Grant

    2003-2004 Society of Distinguished Alumni Scholarship

    2003 Schreyer Honors College Summer Research Scholarship

    2003 Eberly College of Science Research Award

Professional Experience

    2003-2015 14 Invited Colloquia/Talks & 50+ Contributed Seminars/Talks presented

    2008-2015 Referee for 5 ApJ, 4 MNRAS and 2 A&A submissions

    2014-2015 Service on HST (2x), NSF, NESSF, NPP review panels

    2014-2015 Team Lead for spectroscopic variability, SDSS-RM

    2013-2015 Chair of Spectroscopy and Junior Scientist working groups, CANDELS

    2013-2015 Service on PSU astro dept climate committee

    2011 Press Release: Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes, with interview by

        Discovery Channel, also appearing on NSF.gov, Astronomy.com, Space Daily, Universe Today,

        and Astronomy Now websites.

    2011 Contributor to Cosmos popular science magazine article

    2010 Press Release: A New Form of Black Hole Accretion appearing in Ehime Shimbun

        (Matsuyama, Japan daily newspaper)

    2009-2010 Science Advisory Board for the Magellan/M2FS instrument

Mentoring, Teaching & Outreach

    2007-2015 4 popular-level invited lectures

    2013-2015 Primary mentor for PSU visiting graduate student M. Sun (now USTC postdoc)

    2011-2015 Primary mentor for 5 high school students, including 2 Intel/Siemens semifinalists

    2012-2013 Primary mentor for UCSC undergraduate T. Carmichael (now Harvard grad student)

    2010-2013 Mentor for UCSC graduate student H. Yesuf

    2008 Creator of “Astronomy in English” lecture series, Ehime University

    2007-8 Teaching Assistant, Univ of Arizona, Astr 202: Life in the Universe (3 semesters)

References

    Prof. Sandy M. Faber, University Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Emeritus (faber-at-ucolick-dot-org)

    Prof. W. Niel Brandt, Verne M. Willaman Professor (niel-at-astro-dot-psu-dot-edu)

    Prof. Chris D. Impey, University Distinguished Professor (cimpey-at-as-dot-arizona-dot-edu)

    Prof. Robin Ciardullo, Professor (rbc-at-astro-dot-psu-dot-edu)

    Prof. Casey Papovich, Professor (papovich-at-physics-dot-tamu-dot-edu)