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I am a professional astronomer with a B.S. in astronomy from Caltech and an astronomy Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. I have worked as a visiting professor at Swarthmore College, and as a postdoctoral researcher studying brown dwarfs, asteroids, and extrasolar planetary systems at Stony Brook University. From 2015-2021 I worked as a researcher searching for near-Earth asteroids with the ATLAS project at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) of the University of Hawaii Since 2021 I have been a research scientist at the University of Washington, focusing on asteroid discovery for the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). In particular, I have written the Heliolinc3D multi-night linking software the survey is using for asteroid discovery.Besides writing the Epic of Karolan , I have also composed a number of short stories and poems. I try to explore profound human questions with my writing, and create compelling and widely-varied scenes and setting. These short stories are very different from Karolan : I'm not interested in writing the same thing twice! |