Hello! I'm an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Loyola University Chicago. My research addresses problems in general relativity, cosmology, string theory, and quantum field theory. I spend a lot of time thinking about black holes.
I grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did my graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin. After finishing my PhD, I held postdoctoral positions at the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Brown University, and the Perimeter Institute. You can see a copy of my CV here. My Google Scholar profile can be found here.
If you're looking for course websites, here are links to Electricity & Magnetism and Introduction to Particle Physics.
You might be looking for my notes on conventions, definitions, identities, and formulas that are useful for researchers in high-energy theory and gravitation. Those can be found here. An older version is available here, but you should use the other one!
I am pretty active on social media. You might be able to find me on Twitter, but things over there are pretty grim. You're more likely to find me on Mastodon or Bluesky and maybe elsewhere.
