My goal as a physicist is to develop a clearer understanding of quantum phases of matter and their transitions. I’m especially passionate about using inspiration from classical physics to probe quantum phenomena. This has often led me to interesting numerical work. For example, my curiosity about superfluid vortices, as described by Scheeler et al., led to my work with the Irvine lab at UChicago. While there I built from scratch a GPU-enhanced simulation of a superfluid to study vortex nucleation from an airfoil and used analogies to the classical therory of airfoil flight to better understand flight in a superfluid. My current work focuses on taking inspiration from classical/soft matter phase transitions in order to probe the high temperature cuprate superconductors. In addition, I’m studying the behavior of physical quantities across a more exotic continuous metal instulator transition described by T. Senthil.

I am also passionate about helping students to think about physics pictorially and to appreciate and take advantage of symmetry in their work.