My undergrad work falls broadly into three categories:

1. Analysis of dense cores in nearby star forming regions. I published a first-author paper detailing a virial analysis of dense pre-stellar cores across a series of nearby star-forming regions using data from the Green Bank Ammonia Survey. I also contributed to a dense core catalog that used data from the JCMT Gould Belt Survey, which was released in 2025. This is the component of my undergraduate work that lead most directly to my current work on young stars, and my recent collaborations are starting to get back into this type of work to support new star formation simulations. 

2. Work on early planetary system evolution, focussed on the Beta Pic. I published a second-author paper about the detection of nitrogen in the Beta Pictoris Debris disk that I was extensively involved in.

3. The search for massive white dwarfs in young star clusters. This is a project I started and lead up until I made the transition to grad school, and I also got the opportunity to act as a mentor for summer students during this project. This resulted in a substantial paper series detailing the discovery of numerous massive white dwarfs and their properties, in particular making note of their highly magnetic properties. I was the second author on the first paper in the series, and a collaborator on the other two. While this is more removed from the themes of my current research, the extensive use of the Gaia archive prepared my well for my current Gaia-based work on young stars.