Present Position

Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Department of Physics, School of Humanities and Sciences
Department of Particle and Particle Astrophysics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Member, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrphysics and Cosmology

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D. Physics, June 2001
Dissertation: "Dark Halo Merging and Galaxy Formation"
supervisor: Professor Joel Primack
M.S. Physics, September 1999

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.B. Physics, minor in Mathematics, June 1996

Previous Positions

University of Chicago 2003 -- 2006
Hubble Fellow, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Enrico Fermi Fellow, Enrico Fermi Institute
Institute Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics

University of Michigan 2001 -- 2003
Research Fellow, Department of Physics
Member, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics

Awards, Fellowships & Activities

Hellman Faculty Scholar, Stanford, 2008
Frederick Terman Fellow, Stanford, 2006 -- 2009
Advisory Board, Cogito 2007 -- present
Kavli Frontiers Fellow, 2006
Hubble Fellow, NASA/STScI, 2003 -- 2006
Enrico Fermi Fellow, EFI/UChicago, 2003 -- 2005
Arthur H. Compton Lecturer, Spring 2005
GAANN Fellow, UC Santa Cruz, 1998 -- 2001
Presidential Fellow, UC Santa Cruz, 1996 -- 1998