I joined UMass Lowell in Fall 2010, following postdoctoral research at Gemini Observatory and Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I completed my Ph.D in Astronomy at the University of Southampton, UK in 2002. My research is focused on Pulsars, Black Holes, Binary Stars, X-rays, High Energy Radiation, Optical Spectroscopy, and Adaptive Optics