I recently completed my PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Oregon, and I hold a Bachelor's degree in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Colorado College. My academic path has been shaped not just by a love of the subject, but by a genuine enjoyment of teaching it — something I discovered early in graduate school and have pursued ever since.
Over the course of my graduate career I accumulated significant classroom experience across a wide range of courses. I served as a...
I recently completed my PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Oregon, and I hold a Bachelor's degree in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Colorado College. My academic path has been shaped not just by a love of the subject, but by a genuine enjoyment of teaching it — something I discovered early in graduate school and have pursued ever since.
Over the course of my graduate career I accumulated significant classroom experience across a wide range of courses. I served as a teaching assistant for introductory physics sequences and labs, and graduate-level classical mechanics, data science, Bayesian statistics, and astronomy. I also have experience in programming, comfortable in Python, C++, Julia, R, and Java — including applying these languages in data analysis and scientific computing contexts, which I'm happy to bring into tutoring sessions as well.
My approach to tutoring is rooted in building intuition before drilling procedure. I've found that students who understand why something works are far more resilient when problems get harder or look unfamiliar. In one-on-one settings I focus on identifying exactly where a student's understanding breaks down, then rebuilding from there at whatever pace makes sense. I'm patient, direct, and I genuinely enjoy the moment when something finally clicks.
