I am a graduate student currently working with Professor Christopher Reynolds at the University of Maryland. My primary interests are the high-energy astrophysical phenomena associated with accreting supermassive black holes at the centers of their host galaxies. I use both space telescope data and computational methods to explore the observable signatures of these so-called active galactic nuclei (AGN). The X-ray spectra from these sources allow us to investigate many interesting features of this broad class of objects, including the accretion process, fast outflows, and plasma physics near the black hole.

Research Areas:

High-energy astrophysics