Curriculum Vitae
Appointments, education, teaching, field work, awards, and service.
Download CV (PDF)Appointments
- Sep 2024-present
Postdoctoral Associate
Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- May-Sep 2024
Postdoctoral Scholar
Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Education
- 2024
Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Science
University of California, Berkeley
- 2019
B.A., cum laude, Geology
Occidental College
Publications
- A complete, current publication record is available on the Publications page.
Selected Talks
- Apr 2026
The Geodynamo Through Time: core paradoxes, paleomagnetic insights, and open questions
Space Physics Seminar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (invited)
- Nov 2025
Deep time, moving continents, and a Snowball Earth
Geology Seminar, Occidental College (invited)
- Nov 2025
Assembling supercontinent Rodinia and tracking its development in the late Proterozoic
Division Seminar, Caltech (invited)
- Oct 2025
Recalibrating Adirondack metamorphism, exhumation, and Neoproterozoic paleogeography
GSA Annual Meeting
- Oct 2025
Paleogeographic evolution of Oman and Egyptian terranes of the Arabian-Nubian Shield
GSA Annual Meeting (invited)
- Apr 2025
Anorthosites in northern Minnesota: 100 years of study of their one-billion-year-old history
University of Minnesota Duluth
- Oct 2024
Reconstructing late Proterozoic magmatism, geomagnetic field behavior, and paleogeography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Oct 2024
Reconstructing Neoproterozoic paleogeography with metamorphic rocks
Hard Rock Lunch, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Apr 2024
Reconstructing late Proterozoic magmatism, geomagnetic field behavior, and paleogeography using tiny magnets in rocks
UC Berkeley EPS exit seminar
- Jul 2023
New approaches to apparent polar wander path synthesis
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (invited)
- Jun 2023
New approaches to apparent polar wander path development
IRM Conference (invited)
- Feb 2023
New perspectives on Laurentia's Grenville Loop
MagIC Workshop (invited)
Teaching
- Jun 2024
Teaching assistant, laboratory sessions
Institute for Rock Magnetism Summer School
- Fall 2023
Graduate student instructor, EPS 101 Field Geology and Digital Mapping
University of California, Berkeley
- Spring 2023
Reader, EPS 88 PyEarth
University of California, Berkeley
- Fall 2022
Graduate student instructor, EPS 101 Field Geology and Digital Mapping
University of California, Berkeley
- Spring 2022
Reader, EPS 115 Stratigraphy and Earth History
University of California, Berkeley
- Fall 2021
Graduate student instructor, EPS 101 Field Geology and Digital Mapping
University of California, Berkeley
- Spring 2021
Graduate student instructor, EPS 50 The Planet Earth
University of California, Berkeley
- Winter 2020
Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellow
University of California, Berkeley
- Fall 2020
Graduate student instructor, EPS 101 Field Geology and Digital Mapping
University of California, Berkeley
Original Field Work
32 weeks total
- 2026
Southern Sweden (1 week)
Neoproterozoic paleogeographic position of Baltica
- 2025
Central Eastern Desert, Egypt (2 weeks)
Neoproterozoic paleogeography of the Arabian-Nubian Shield
- 2024
Sliderock Mountains, Montana (1 week)
Mesozoic apparent polar wander and intrusive rocks
- 2024, 2026
Oman (5 weeks)
Neoproterozoic paleogeography of the Mozambique Ocean
- 2022-2023
Grenville orogen (3 weeks)
Paleomagnetism, thermochronology, and exhumation history
- 2021
Death Valley, California and Grand Canyon, Arizona (4 weeks)
Southwest Laurentia Large Igneous Province and Midcontinent Rift
- 2020
Pikes Peak, Colorado (2 weeks)
Emplacement history of the Pikes Peak batholith
- 2019-2021
Midcontinent Rift, Lake Superior Region (11 weeks)
Geomagnetic field behavior, continental motion, and ancient environments
- 2019
Central Highlands, Iceland (3 weeks)
Rofabard soil-erosion measurements
Awards and Funding
- 2025
IAGA Early Career Presentation Awards
- 2024
AGU GPE Postdoctoral Grant ($755)
Enhancing site-based apparent polar wander paths with Bayesian stratigraphic age models
- 2023
UC Berkeley Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant ($900)
2023 Geochronology Gordon Research Conference
- 2023
UC Berkeley Earth and Planetary Science George C. Louderback Award
- 2023
AGeS3-Grad Geochronology Award ($8,865)
Dating the Grenville Loop using U-Pb apatite thermochronology
- 2022
GSA Graduate Student Research Grant ($1,749)
Paleomagnetism and thermochronology of the Adirondack Mountains, Grenville Province
- 2022
UC Berkeley Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant ($900)
2022 AGU Fall Meeting oral presentation
- 2022
Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) Programs ($10,000)
H2H8 Association Graduate Research Grant to Advance Humanity through Science
- 2019
U.S. Visiting Student Fellowships, Institute for Rock Magnetism ($500)
Paleomagnetism and rock magnetism study on Mesoproterozoic Beaver Bay Complex and anorthosite xenoliths therein
- 2019
ILSG Student Research Fund, Institute on Lake Superior Geology ($500)
To study the emplacement history of the Beaver River diabase and the anorthosite xenoliths therein using paleomagnetism
- 2019
Chevron-Xenel Gateway Fellowship ($5,000)
Berkeley International House
- 2019
John Parke Young Student Grant, Occidental College ($3,500)
Using UAV Data for Monitoring Modern Rofabard Soil Erosion in Central Highlands, Iceland
- 2018
Independent Research, Occidental College ($4,000)
Pseudo-Thellier Paleointensity Measurement on R-N Geomagnetic Polarity Reversal Recorded by Mafic Lava Flows, Anahola, Kauai
- 2017
Independent Research, Henry Luce Foundation, Nanjing University ($2,250)
Mapping of Ambient Ozone Pollution in China and the Assessment of Its Health Impact on Socio-Economy
Software and Service
- Contributing developer to PmagPy.
- Contributing developer to RockmagPy.
- Lead developer for the RapidPy magnetometer-control system.
- Reviewer for Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Geology; Communications Earth & Environment; Science Bulletin; Tectonics; and Science Advances.
- Panel reviewer for NASA Emerging Worlds.