I'm a PhD student at the University of California Davis, studying nuclear physics. Most of my research takes place at Brookhaven National Lab's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider with the STAR Collaboration. My work at STAR centers around the search for the critical point of QCD matter.  We collide gold ions at relativistic speeds to create a phase of matter called the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), we then measure the particles that emerge from these collisions with the STAR detector. I analyze these collisions to identify anomalous events which can indicate whether there is a critical point in the phase diagram of nuclear matter. My other research focus is the future Electron-Ion Collider which is sited to be built in the 2030s. I develop simulations of physics processes that we might expect to detect at the EIC in order to expand the physics agenda of the EIC and help inform detector design. Prior to starting at UC Davis, I was a junior research specialist and an R&D engineer for UC Berkeley's Department of Nuclear Engineering, working at Lawrence Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron. I got my bachelors degree in physics from UC Berkeley in 2018.