I am a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. My research concerns multi-wavelength (radio, infrared, optical, X-ray) observations of a variety of types of compact objects: neutron stars, white dwarfs, and black holes. I am also working on detecting radio transients with the Murchison Widefield Array, and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Variables and Slow Transients survey gravitational wave transients and new binaries with the Zwicky Transient Facility. I am a member of NANOGrav and the Green Bank North Celestial Cap (GBNCC) pulsar survey.
Current teaching and advising:
- Fall 2019: Astron 104, Astron 103, Astron 211
- UWM Astronomy Club: Facebook, Instagram, wiki
- Physics Undergraduate Advising: email physics-ugadvisor@uwm.edu
Recent Press/Popular Articles:
- Gravitiational Waves in 2018 UWM Research Magazine
- After the Alert in The Conversation
- Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away in The Conversation
- We found a mysterious flashing radio signal from near the centre of the galaxy in The Conversation
- We've used a new technique to discover the brightest radio pulsar outside our own galaxy in The Conversation