After I received my Ph.D., I was a posdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University working with Dave Meyer and Jim Lauroesch.
I was hired as a Research Associate at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in 2003. As a Research Associate, my primary responsibility was perform the final data quality assessment of the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS), under the supervision of R. Chris Smith. With the MCELS dataset, we have discovered new supernova remnant candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) , a few of which have been confirmed using the CTIO Blanco 4-m Echelle Spectrograph and the XMM-Newton satellite.
My research experience with multi-wavelength datasets, in general, and the LMC, in particular, led to my being hired by Bob Blum and Knut Olsen to analyze the mass-loss from evolved stars in LMC clusters using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope program "Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) , led by Margaret Meixner .Since then, I have been hired as an Assistant Scientist at for the SOuthern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope . My new responsibilities include providing observer support for SOAR, assessing the delivered image quality, writing data reduction scripts/software, and commissioning new instruments.
I am primarily responsible for providing instrument and observer support to the
