Beyond the thesis

Projects

Mission concepts, instruments, and other work outside my dissertation research.

Planetary scientist · University of Maryland · 2026 – Present

TERP RAPTOR

A 12U CubeSat concept for a close flyby of the asteroid Apophis ahead of its 2029 Earth encounter, with the goal of measuring the asteroid’s mass. I’m the mission’s planetary scientist: I help plan its science objectives and drafted the science-mode concept of operations.

planetary science
mission design
CubeSat

Astrophotography · 2023 – 2024

2024 Total Solar Eclipse Campaign

Ten months of planning, gear testing, and weather-chasing that ended in Newport, Vermont, with an HDR composite of the solar maximum corona.

astrophotography
eclipses

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