Astrophysics Research & Education
Hello! I am an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). My primary work supports the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES). The Roman Space Telescope is the next NASA flagship mission to launch no later than Spring 2027.
I have also worked on several instrumentation projects at the Keck Observatory and have been a collaborator in the UCLA Galactic Center Group.
I have a passion for teaching and also love participating in scientific Outreach opportunities. I believe every scientist has a duty to broaden and strengthen science literacy worldwide.
Other things that interest me: live sports, playing golf, eating food, and traveling.
Recent Work
Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey
Terry et al. 2026
One of the few remaining science requirements to verify for the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) is on the microlens systems mass and distance estimates. In this work we have verified that Roman will meet this requirement of at least 40% of planetary microlensing events with better than 20% uncertainty on mass and distance estimates.
The paper has been published in The Astronomical Journal, it can be found here.
