Teaching
Pedagogical Training and Certification
I have devoted significant time and effort during my Ph.D. to pursue additional coursework and certification to improve my pedagogical practices. Through this work, I have served as instructor-of-record and primary instructor while still a graduate student (see university teaching experience, below) and carried out a research capstone project in pedagogy.
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Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (2025-2026)
- Awarded competitive fellowship to develop an undergraduate seminar and teach as the primary instructor.
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CIRTL Certified Practitioner (Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning)
- Developed and implemented a Teaching-as-Research project capstone research study.
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Completed Pedagogy Coursework (over 100 credit hours)
- Physics 495 - Teaching College Physics
- Graduate Professional Development 497B - Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Pedagogy Seminar
- Graduate Professional Development 496B - Teaching as Research
- Graduate Professional Development 496C - Implementing and Communicating Teaching as Research Project
University Teaching Experience
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Instructor & Course Designer — Collegium of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA
- Research Practice 98T: Cosmic Evolution: The history of galaxies through astronomical datasets
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Instructor & Co-Founder — Astronomy Introductory Coding Workshop, UCLAA 10-week course preparing undergraduate students for research in astronomy through foundational Python and astronomy coding skills. See outreach for more details.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant — UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- ASTR 5: Life in the Universe (Fall 2021)
- PHYS 5B: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics — Lab (Winter 2022)
- ASTR 3: Nature of the Universe (Spring 2022)
Undergraduate Teaching — Carleton College
As an upper-division student in the Carleton Physics Department, I worked as a lab assistant, problem-solving facilitator, and grader. In these roles I helped students run laboratory experiments, facilitated problem solving at homework support hours, and graded coursework.
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Astronomy Lab Assistant & Grader — Goodsell Observatory, Carleton College
- ASTR 113: Observational and Laboratory Astronomy (Lab Assistant, Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- ASTR 110: Introduction to Astronomy (Grader, Problem Solving Facilitator, and Lab Assistant, Winter 2021)
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Problem Solving Facilitator — Carleton College
- PHYS 231: Analytical and Computational Mechanics (Winter 2020, 2021)
- PHYS 226: Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Fall 2019, 2020)
- PHYS 143: Physical Systems — Mechanics and Relativity (Winter 2020)
- Introductory Physics (PHYS 131, 141, 142, 143, 145, 151, 152)
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Physics Lab Assistant & Grader — Carleton College
- PHYS 144: Astrophysical Systems — Mechanics and Relativity (Lab Assistant, Winter 2019)
- PHYS 226: Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Lab Assistant, Fall 2019)
- PHYS 143: Physical Systems — Mechanics and Relativity (Lab Assistant, Winter 2020)
- PHYS 151: Introduction to Physics — Relativity and Particles (Lab Assistant, Spring 2020)
Images taken with lab students during Carleton's observational astronomy courses, captured with SBIG STT-8300M CCD cameras on 8-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain LX200 telescopes at Goodsell Observatory. Left: M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) by Pinchen Fan and Mehdi Shahid. Middle: the Moon by Claire Williams and Sarah Bodansky. Right: M27 (Dumbbell Nebula) by Dylan Willick.