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Welcome!
I am a former researcher, forever astrophysicist, and current research administrator living and working in Canada. Currently, I’m the Associate Director for Strategic Partnerships, Grants, and Awards at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. Previously, I was the project manager for the CHIME/FRB Collaboration, a consortium of 60+ researchers in Canada and internationally using the CHIME telescope to search for fast radio bursts.
During my former life (aka my research career) I held with a Veni Fellow at the University of Amsterdam Anton Pannekoek Institute studying fast radio bursts and radio transients. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. I completed my PhD in astrophysics in 2015 at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
My research focus was on an exciting new type of object called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) -- powerful bursts of radio light coming from outside our Galaxy! Previously, I also studied pulsars in the Milky Way and the interstellar medium. I also discovered some microwave ovens along the way. For more about me, my past research, and some other fun things, check out the links below!
I am no longer active in the field of research but still very passionate about research management, research operations, and finding as many ways as possible to engage members of underrepresented groups in science and research at all levels!
More about my research and my publications. See here for information about talks, plots, and discoveries.
All the other fun stuff I get up to in Canada and the rest of the world.
