Biography

Galaxies are often admired for their elegance and beauty, but they are also quite fragile. All across the night sky we see galaxies destroying one another, and these processes occur close to home in the small dwarf galaxies which orbit around our Milky Way. Using numerical simulations, I am able to constrain the interaction histories of these galaxies as they are being ripped apart. Streams of stars and gas are spewed from these galaxies during this process, and my goal is to understand the mechanisms responsible for their formation.