Mentoring & Teaching
Mentoring is the part of this job I would keep if I had to give up the rest. Below are the students I have worked with, what they took on, and where they went next.
Selected students
University of Arizona
Olivia Culbert
Dust in normal core-collapse supernovae. Olivia contributed to the JWST/MIRI sample analysis by helping construct spectral energy distributions for eleven Type IIP supernovae and testing their robustness. Her work supported the broader analysis of late-time infrared emission and dust in the sample.
Braden Garretson
Machine-learning frameworks for rapid inference from all-sky surveys. Braden built classification and host-association machinery that fed directly into REFITT. His first-author paper photometrically classified more than 10,000 ZTF light curves and associated them with host galaxies. He has also significantly contributed to quantitatively estimate the HST limits on any underlying host galaxy for AT 2021lwx aka "Scary Barbie".
Shorter projects & advising
Moira Andrews
Graduate-school application advising. Moira worked with me on refining her research statement and application materials, preparing for the transition from undergraduate research to graduate study.