Computational Astrophysics · SDSU
Stars shape the universe. I build the models — and the software — to understand how.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Astronomy and a computational astrophysicist at San Diego State University. I build differentiable models of stars and star clusters — and Jaxstro, the ecosystem that follows them from a cluster's birth through stellar evolution and collisional dynamics to survey observables, inference, and observing design.
What I'm building now
A single connected program
Research questions, scientific software, and teaching are not separate boxes — they are one effort to understand how stars shape the universe.
progenaxstartraxgravaxfluxaxinformax
The IMF, done honestly
When ignoring unresolved binaries makes population inference confidently wrong.
What rewrites a cluster
gravax: Differentiable collisional dynamics.Differentiable cluster inference
informax: What the data can actually recover.Glass-box teaching tools
Cosmic Playground and learner-centered documentation for real computational science.