I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research is aimed at investigating the physics, structure and environment of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and improving supermassive black hole mass measurements by investigating the structure of the broad line region via reverberation mapping and by examining variability in quasar outflows/winds. Much of my previous work, including my dissertation, was on the technique of reverberation mapping, which uses AGN variability to probe the structure of the region from which we see broad emission lines. I am involved in reverberation mapping campaigns using the Hubble Space Telescope as well as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project, a long-term multi-object reverberation mapping campaign carried out via SDSS. I am currently working on the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper program and serving as the Co-Chair of the SDSS-V Reverberation Mapping Working Group.

I also carry out investigations of broad absorption line variability in Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars. While my experience is primarily in optical spectroscopic observations, I also have experience and interest in working with X-ray and NIR data as well (see some publicity on my previous work using archival Chandra data!), and have also explored the ultraviolet regime with HST.

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