About Me

I like to study time series and spectral data. Here is a link to my 1st-author publication where I built an equation, called a stochastic model, to describe the statistical variations of the Earth’s magnetic field strength over the past ~10 million years. This equation captures the down to a ~2 – year resolution. I really like building equations to describe time series data – I am super interested in how this same type of mathematics can be used to describe co-evolving hormonal fluctuations in endocrine medicine.

I also like to create workbooks to help students learn topics in advanced physics that are gatekept by physicists. In particular, if you are a girl or a person of color, many (but not all) male white physicists will refuse to teach you the subject that study and actively try to stonewall your efforts as a student, to learn their field. On the off-chance that you meet a scientist who is willing to take you on, you quickly learn that they expect “brilliance” rather than discipline, tenacity, unyielding curiosity, and focus, from their students. I personally think that expecting magical “brilliance” is still a form, albeit a dumb one, of gatekeeping. Students cannot control how “brilliant” they are – but they can control how they observe, practice, persist, predict, and reflect. I don’t care how brilliant people are. I care how they act.

I wrote a workbook during my PhD to help 4th-year undergraduates and graduate students learn the mathematical foundations of magnetohydrodynamic codes. These are supercomputer codes that help physicists to simulate the motions of electrically-conducting fluid layers deep inside of planetary bodies. The fluid acts like an electric current that generates the planetary magnetic field. There’s a lot of math that goes into it, and I have never found an explanation of it ANYWHERE that makes sense. So I decided to write it myself. This took me 4 years. I am currently in the process of copyrighting the workbook, but when that is done – I will post it here.