I graduated from the University of California San Diego in 2019 with a BS in Astrophysics. There I worked with Prof. Karin Sandstrom and published two papers on the potential of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission as a tracer of both gas density and star formation rate using the SINGS sample of Spitzer mid-infrared spectroscopy. In 2021, I started the Astrophysics PhD program at the University of Toledo. My thesis research with advisor Prof. JD Smith is on the origin of the observed deficit of PAH molecules relative to larger dust grains in low-metallicity galactic environments. I am also a leading member of the Spitzer IRS Mapping Legacy Archive (SIMLA) team which will soon reduce and release, for the first time, all >8000 spectral cubes observed during the Spitzer cold mission.Â
Contact me at: coryw777@gmail.com