About me

Emily receives the Co-op Student of the Year 2017 award from UW president, Feridun Hamdullahpur
I am an observational astronomer, studying exoplanets and low-mass M dwarfs as a PhD candidate, Peirce Fellow, and NSERC Postgraduate Scholar at Harvard University. I obtained my BSc from the physics and astronomy co-op program at the University of Waterloo; relatedly, I was honoured with Canada's National Co-op Student of the Year Award in 2017. I've developed skills in high-performance computing, survey design, astronomical data analysis, and machine learning, presented posters and talks at a variety of conferences, published seven first-author papers, and contributed to the science maturation study for a space telescope.

I am an avid reader and writer, receiving a minor in English Literature alongside my BSc. I enjoy science communication and outreach, and have been involved with such organizations as Let's Talk Science (in particular, their CurioCity program that publishes science articles for a school-aged audience), the Halifax Discovery Centre, Astro McGill, the Waterloo Space Society, and Harvard's Science in the News blog (check out my articles here). My other hobbies include cooking, climbing, and the Legend of Zelda.