Curriculum Vitae

Appointments, education, teaching, field work, awards, and service.

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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

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.

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