# Welcome to my website!
I’m a NASA Einstein Fellow at Cornell University studying the nature of gravity within our Universe. I’m also a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the SXS Collaboration.
But what do I do?
One of the big questions of modern physics is whether Einstein’s equations wholly describe gravity, or if they need to be modified to explain phenomena like quantum gravity and dark energy/matter. Perhaps one of our best chances for understanding this (as well as other interesting physics like astrophysics and cosmology) is through the gravitational waves that are sourced and emitted by binary black hole coalescences, i.e., comparing what Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts with what we observe in gravitational wave observatories like LIGO.
But it turns out that solving Einstein’s equations for the spacetime containing merging black holes is very difficult. And to do so, we need the help of supercomputers and numerical relativity.
With the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration I run these simulations and build models of the gravitational waves that are emitted by black hole coalescences, to help aid with this project of putting Einstein’s equations to the test.
While there’s too much that intrigues me to describe here, this is my main research interest. But for even more details, please check out my research page.