Biography

As an undergraduate studying physics at the University of California, Riverside, I worked alongside faculty searching for evidence of new physics at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). During my time at UC Riverside, I became very active in science outreach and advocacy, including developing an outreach program targeted at local high school students. At Cambridge, I hope to continue my outreach work with physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory while reading for a MASt in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from DAMTP. My field is elementary particle physics, meaning that I am interested in what makes up the universe at the most fundamental level. Dark matter and other questions about the universe have long fascinated me, and I hope to help answer these during my career. Moreover, I hope to help explain their significance to the general public, because I believe that better access to cutting-edge science is needed in primary and secondary schools. A lack of exposure to science during my childhood almost stifled my career before it began, so – with this in mind – it is my goal to help make science more accessible to all. I am ecstatic to study at Cambridge alongside some of the world’s foremost physicists, and following my time at Churchill College, I will study at Princeton University for my Ph.D. in Physics. Ultimately, I hope to secure a faculty position in physics. Interests: public speaking, volleyball, soccer, American football, science outreach, running, and embarrassingly bad math jokes

Previous Education

University of California, Riverside