I am a Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in the Physics Department at New York University (NYU). My current research focuses on applying experimental physics techniques to study neuronal activity in freely behaving fruit fly larvae in collaboration with people in Gershow Lab.

Before joining the physics Ph.D. program at NYU, I studied physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. While I was there, I studied molecular behavior of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) in Soft Materials Research Center.

Research Interests

My research interest centers around understanding how collections of neurons generate self-organized patterns of activity, which then manifest as observable behaviors. For this efforts, I am developing optical tools including random access two-photon microscopy using acousto-optic deflectors (AOD). This technique is essential in studying the connection between multi-neuronal activity and behavior, particularly in an intact, freely behaving Drosophila larva.