I am a 5th year graduate student in the Physics department at UCSB. I study mechanisms for deformation and failure in amorphous materials, friction laws for material interfaces, and transient growth of fluid modes in transition to turbulence. These are examples of dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom and heterogeneous behavior that can be modeled and analyzed using continuum equations. My research has focused on strain localization in a shear transformation zone (STZ) model for amorphous solids, the generalized stability of a fluid flowing past a flexible membrane, and numerical methods for solving hydrodynamic eigenvalue problems. See the Research section for more details. If you are here for photos and "unofficial" content, please see the Personal section.

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