I was born in Mexico but lived most of my life in the Carolinas. I attended MIT for undergrad where I studied Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering). I first joined MKI to work on the development and commissioning of the Large Lenslet Array Magellan Spectrograph (LLAMAS) under Gábor Fűrész. I designed the instrument’s Automatic Levelling System, and its Atmospheric Dispersion Compensator, the latter of which became my undergraduate thesis. Now, as a graduate student, I work with Prof. Rob Simcoe on the development of SuperFIRE for the Giant Magellan Telescope. As a Mechanical Engineering student, I am interested in Optics and High-Precision Engineering which lend themselves well to instrumentation for astrophysics. Further, I hope to study galaxy formation using LLAMAS and FIRE at Las Campanas Observatory.
Outside of grad school, I spend my free time playing Squash, taking pictures of birds or doing astrophotography, playing the guitar, and going on hikes.