Hi, I'm Riley!

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware and member of Dr. Federica Bianco's Astro Statistics Lab (FASTLAB)

My research interests primarily involve enabling population-level statistical studies of M dwarf flares in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time by exploiting atmospheric refraction.

I am a member of the Rubin LSST Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration and a member of the TVS Software Task Force. As part of the Software Task Force, I helped create and instruct a series of workshops called Intermediate Python for Astronomical Software Development.

I am also the project lead of Rubin Rhapsodies, a project to broaden access to the LSST through sound.

I gave a 15 minute dissertation talk at AAS 245, which you can watch here, among other FASTLab talks and presentations.