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 (PAH-metallicity relation or PZR) using Spitzer and JWST. I am also a leading member of the Spitzer/IRS Mapping Legacy Archive (SIMLA) team which will soon release, for the first time, all ~10,000 spectral maps observed during the Spitzer cold mission.
Contact me at: coryw777@gmail.com