Postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Hi! I’m a postdoctoral researcher studying stellar evolution, pulsating stars, and binaries.
Employment history
Postdoctoral researcher
Radboud University – Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(06/2021 – current)
I’m currently working with data collected by the BlackGEM telescope array. I’m using these data to search for variable stars and binaries across the Southern sky.
Postdoctoral researcher
(06/2020 – 05/2021)
I researched pulsating stars in eclipsing binaries, and used these stars to calibrate state-of-the-art stellar evolution codes.
Awards
2021
2015 – 2016
2014
2014
2013
2011
Springer Thesis Award (Springer Nature)
Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship (KU Leuven)
Jason A. Cardelli Memorial Research Award (Villanova University)
Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award (American Astronomical Society)
Rev. Edward F. Jenkins, O.S.A. Endowed Scholarship (Villanova University)
Edwin F. Bailey Scholarship Award (Villanova University)
Education history
PhD in Astrophysics
KU Leuven – Leuven, Belgium
(08/2016 – 05/2020)
Dissertation: Interior modelling of massive stars in multiple systems
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Conny Aerts, Dr. Andrew Tkachenko, Dr. Steven Bloemen
Pre-doc / MSc in Astronomy & Astrophysics
KU Leuven – Leuven, Belgium
(07/2015 – 07/2016)
Distinctions: Grote Onderscheiding (Magna Cum Laude) – 81.59 %
Master Thesis: An Observational Study of the Binarity and the Oscillations of the HW Vir star PTF1 J072455.75+125300.3
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Conny Aerts
BSc in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Villanova University, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
(08/2010 – 12/2014)
Minor degrees: Physics, Mathematics
Stellar-shenanigans 