I am a physicist currently working at Penn State University. I work in high-energy gamma rays, above 1 TeV, the highest-energy gamma rays ever detected. A TeV is equivalent to the amount of energy required for a mosquito to do a pushup. Not much in macroscopic terms, but extreme high-energy to particle physicists.

Prior to Penn State, I worked six years at Los Alamos National Lab on high-energy gamma ray physics, the Milagro and HAWC projects. I received my Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Maryland after conducting the first successful neutrino search for the IceCube project.

I lead the Analysis Algorithms working group for HAWC and spend most of my days analyzing the near-petabyte HAWC dataset. Off hours I board game with my family, sculpt, make pottery, run, and kill bad guys on the internet.