Welcome! I am an Associate Professor in the
Department of Physics at
McGill University, and a member of the
Trottier Space Institute at McGill. I mostly work on stellar astrophysics applied to compact objects: neutron stars, white dwarfs, and planets. In neutron stars, this includes thermonuclear burning, magnetic field evolution, and the properties of dense matter, and using transient phenomena in accreting neutron stars and magnetars as a way to probe these different pieces of physics. In planets, the goal is to connect the observed properties of exoplanets and Solar System planets to theories of their structure, formation, and evolution. Most recently I have been working on the interaction between convection and composition gradients in Jupiter, crystallization-driven convection and dynamos in white dwarfs, flows in magnetized hot jupiters, and formation of gas giants with application to directly imaged planets.
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