ABOUT ME

I started my research career in Astrophysics at the University of Chicago with Dr. Stephen Meyer working on an Honors Physics Thesis. I wrote a ray-trace based Monte Carlo simulation to bridge theory and experimental output of our lab-designed compact Fourier Transform Spectrometer for the South Pole Telescope. I was awarded the 2017 the Selove Prize in Undergraduate Research in Physics at the University of Chicago Physics Department, an Honors Physics Bachelors degree, and 2 publications. After graduating, I took a gap year studying diffusion and perfusion MRI.

I began my PhD in Medical Physics at the University of Chicago as an NSF GRFP fellow with Dr. Timothy Carroll in 2019. My PhD work was on perfusion MRI with local-AIF DSC and IVIM in acute stroke and was a finalist for the 2022 University of Chicago Harper Dissertation award, nominated for the 2024 University of Chicago Best PhD Dissertation, and given the program award for outstanding performance in the general field of medical physics. Along the way I also collaborated with Fermilab contributing to muon tomography of the Pyramids of Giza, combining observational cosmology and medical imaging.

I returned to New York City when I began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in August 2023 at the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute, studying translation of advanced diffusion and quantitative multiparametric MRI in kidneys with Drs. Octavia Bane, Sara Lewis, and Bachir Taouli. I was awarded an NIH National Center of Advancing Translational Sciences TL1 fellowship at Mount Sinai in 2024 for my proposed multi-component spectral diffusion MRI. Since then I have been working on clinical translation of a multi-component spectral diffusion model, as well as functional MRI (IVIM, ASL, BOLD/R2*) in kidney transplants and kidney cancer for detection and prediction of disease. In May 2025 I was elected Trainee Representative of The International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Renal MRI study group.

Since 2019 my research has led to more than 15 papers published in well respected peer-reviewed journals, contribution to reviews and consensus reports, and more than 50 international conference presentations. I plan to continue applying computational physics and medical physics to collaborative and clinical translational research with the goal of improving preventative, diagnostic, and interventional healthcare.