I'm a graduate student in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and graduated from Los Alamos High School in 2002. I then graduated from New Mexico State University in spring 2006 with a BA in Physics, a BM in Trumpet Performance, and an SM in Applied Mathematics.

I'm very happily married, and we have one dog. The dog has a bit of a weight problem, but then so do I, I suppose. At least I exercise once in a while.