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Education

2015 - Present | Ph.D. Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University
2017 | A.M. Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University
2014 | B.S. Astrophysics, minor in mathematics, University of New Mexico

Experience and Employment

Graduate Research Assistant, Harvard University
2015 - 2018 | Masters Project, Advisor: Edo Berger
Late-time Multi-wavelength Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451

Content Developer, HarvardX
2020 | University Chemistry: Molecular Foundations and Global Frontiers
2020 | Reclaiming Argument: An Introduction to Logical Reasoning
2019 | The FDA and Prescription Drugs: Current Controversies in Context
2018 | Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 3: The Brain
2017 - 2018 | Super-Earths and Life

Laboratory Assistant, Harvard University
2015 - 2016 | Advisor: Lincoln Greenhill
Development of a Low-Noise Amplifier for the Large Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Ages

Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of New Mexico
2013 - 2015 | Honors Thesis, Advisor: Greg Taylor
A Low Frequency Survey of Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar

Summer Student, ASTRON, Netherlands
2014 | Advisor: Richard Fallows
Heliospheric Faraday Rotation from the Crab Pulsar

Long Wavelength Array Telescope Operator
2013 - 2015

Teaching

2018, 2019 | Head Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
The Unity of Science: From the Big Bang to the Brontosaurus and Beyond

2017 | Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
The Unity of Science: From the Big Bang to the Brontosaurus and Beyond

Awards

2019 | ALMA Cycle 7 Student Observing Support Award
2018 | ALMA Cycle 6 Student Observing Support Award
2017 | National Science Foundation GRFP Honorable Mention
2017 | Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (SPU 22)
2014 | New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Scholarship
2013 | University of New Mexico Undergraduate Research Award

Telescope Time Allocations (as PI)

Professional Service

2019 - Present | Referee, Astrophysical Journal, Astrophysical Journal Letters, MNRAS
2017 | Facilitator, Chandra Cycle 19 Peer Review

Professional Development

2019 | GROWTH Astronomy School: Follow up of transients in the era of multi-messenger astronomy
2018 | ICRAR/CASS Radio School
2017 | Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics, The Physics of Astronomical Transients
2017 | La Serena School of Data Science, Applied Tools for Data Driven Sciences
2014, 2016 | NRAO Synthesis Imaging Workshop

Outreach Activities

2019 - 2020 | Peer Mentor, Harvard Astronomy Department
2019| Panelist, Graduate School from the Grad Student Perspective, SAO Solar Physics REU
2018 - 2020 | Seminar Coordinator, Unveiling the Cosmos, Beacon Hill Seminars
2018 | Local Organizing Committee, ComSciCon
2018 | Poster Judge, National Collegiate Research Conference
2017 | Graduate Student Panel, Wellesley College
2017 | DayCon 2017: Planet Earth Speaker Chair, Science in the News, Harvard University
2017 | Tech Team Mentor, Science Club for Girls
2016 - 2018| Blog Writer, Science in the News, Harvard University
2016 - 2017 | Undergraduate Women in Science Mentor, Harvard University
2016 | Young Leaders in Stem Mentor, Science Club for Girls
2016 | Digital Mentor, YouthAstroNet
2013 - 2015 | Telescope Operator, UNM Campus Observatory

Computer Skills

Langauges | Python, Latex, HTML, CSS
Software | CASA, CIAO, XSPEC, DS9, Genesys RF and Microwave Design

Presentations

Millimeter Transients with CMB-S4
2020 | CMB-S4 Spring 2020 Collaboration Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

An Overview of FRB Environments
2020 | The Astrophysics of Fast Radio Bursts, Flatiron Institute

Localizing Fast Radio Bursts and Their Host Galaxies
2019 | CITA/Dunlap Institute

A Radio Source Coincident with a Superluminous Supernovae
2019 | Institute for Theory and Computation Luncheon, Harvard

Millimeter Transients in the Era of CMB Surveys
2019 | Astrophysics with the CMB-S4 Survey, University of Chicago

A Radio Source Coincident with the Superluminous Supernova PTF10hgi
2019 | Columbia University, Department of Astronomy Pizza Lunch

Identifying the Host Galaxies of Fast Radio Bursts
2019 | FRBs and Their Possible Neutron Star Origins, Amsterdam

Tidal Disruption Events and Fast Radio Bursts
2018 | Transients Group Meeting, CIERA Northwestern University

Uncovering the Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts
2018 | New Hampshire Astronomical Society

Radio Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451
2017 | Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics, The Physics of Astronomical Transients

Associating Fast Radio Bursts to Their Host Galaxies
2017 | Workshop on Fast Radio Bursts, McGill University

Longterm Multi-wavelength Monitoring of the Relativistic Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451
2017 | American Astronomical Society 229th Meeting

Tidal Disruption Events: A Multi-Wavelength Approach
2016 | Time-Domain Astrophysics: Incorporating Observations, Theory, and Computation in the American Northeast

A Low Frequency Survey of Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar
2015 | American Astronomical Society 225th Meeting

Publications

Late-time Radio and Millimeter Observations of Superluminous Supernovae and Long Gamma-Ray Bursts: Implications for Obscured Star Formation, Central Engines, and Fast Radio Bursts
T. Eftekhari et al. 2020 | Submitted to ApJ| arXiv:2010.06612

Wandering Massive Black Holes or Analogs of the First Repeating Fast Radio Burst?
T. Eftekhari et al. 2020 | ApJL| arXiv:2001.02688

AT 2018cow VLBI: No Long-Lived Relativistic Outflow
Bietenholz et al. 2019 | MNRAS | arXiv:1911.08778

Two years of non-thermal emission from the binary neutron star merger GW170817: rapid fading of the jet afterglow and first constraints on the kilonova fastest ejecta
Hajela et al. 2019 | ApJL | arXiv:1909.06393

A Galaxy-Targeted Search for the Optical Counterpart of the Candidate NS-BH Merger S190814bv with Magellan
Gomez et al. 2019 | ApJL | arXiv:1908.08913

The Optical Afterglow of GW170817: An Off-axis Structured Jet and Deep Constraints on a Globular Cluster Origin
Fong et al. 2019 | ApJL | arXiv:1908.08046

Follow-up of the Neutron Star Bearing Gravitational Wave Candidate Events S190425z and S190426c with MMT and SOAR
Hosseinzadeh et al. 2019 | Submitted to ApJL| arXiv:1905.02186

A Radio Source Coincident with the Superluminous Supernovae PTF10hgi: Evidence for a Central Engine and an Analogue of the Repeating FRB121102?
T. Eftekhari et al. 2019 | ApJL | arXiv:1901.10479

The tidal disruption event AT2017eqx: spectroscopic evolution from hydrogen rich to poor suggests an atmosphere and outflow
Nicholl et al. 2019 | Submitted to MNRAS | arXiv:1904.10571

Radio Time-Domain Signatures of Magnetar Birth
Law et al. 2019 | Astro2020 White Paper | arXiv:1903.04691

Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Extremely Large Telescopes
Chornock et al. 2019 | Astro2020 White Paper | arXiv:1903.04629

An embedded X-ray source shines through the aspherical AT2018cow: revealing the inner workings of the most luminous fast-evolving optical transients
Margutti et al. 2018 | ApJ | arXiv:1810.10720

Unveiling the Engines of Fast Radio Bursts, Super-Luminous Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts
Margalit et al. 2018 | Submitted to MNRAS | arXiv:1806.05690

Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Observations of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
Villar et al. 2018 | ApJL | arXiv:1805.08192

A Decline in the X-ray through Radio Emission from GW170817 Continues to Support an Off-Axis Structured Jet
Alexander et al. 2018 | ApJL | arXiv:1805.02870

Associating Fast Radio Bursts with Extragalactic Radio Sources: General Methodology and a Search for a Counterpart to FRB 170107
T. Eftekhari et al. 2018 | ApJ | arXiv:1802.09525

A Precise Distance to the Host Galaxy of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations
Cantiello et al. 2018 | ApJL | arXiv:1801.06080

The Binary Neutron Star event LIGO/VIRGO GW170817 a hundred days after merger: synchrotron emission across the electromagnetic spectrum
Margutti et al. 2018 | Submitted to ApJL | arXiv:1801.03531

Radio Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451. III. Late-time Jet Energetics and a Deviation from Equipartition
T. Eftekhari et al. 2018 | Submitted to ApJ | arXiv:1710.07289

Improved Constraints on H0 from a combined analysis of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic emission from GW170817
Guidorzi et al. 2017 | Submitted to ApJL | arXiv:1710.06426

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
Abbott et al. 2017 | Nature | arXiv:1710.05835

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpartt
Soares-Santos et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05459

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models
Cowperthwaite et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05840

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. III. Optical and UV Spectra of a Blue Kilonova From Fast Polar Ejecta
Nicholl et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05456

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South
Chornock et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05454

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. V. Rising X-ray Emission from an Off-Axis Jet
Margutti et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05431

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. VI. Radio Constraints on a Relativistic Jet and Predictions for Late-Time Emission from the Kilonova Ejecta
Alexander et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05457

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. VII. Properties of the Host Galaxy and Constraints on the Merger Timescale
Blanchard et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05458

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. VIII. A Comparison to Cosmological Short-duration Gamma-ray Bursts
Fong et al. 2017 | ApJL| arXiv:1710.05438

Design and characterization of the Large-Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Age (LEDA) radiometer systems
Price et al. 2017 | Submitted to MNRAS | arXiv:1709.09313

Bifrost: a Python/C++ Framework for High-Throughput Stream Processing in Astronomy
Cranmer et al. 2017 | JAI | arXiv:1708.00720

Associating Fast Radio Bursts to Their Host Galaxies
T. Eftekhari and E. Berger 2017 | ApJ | arxiv: 1705.02998

Empirical constraints on the origin of fast radio bursts: volumetric rates and host galaxy demographics as a test of millisecond magnetar connection
Nicholl et al. 2017 | ApJ | arXiv:1704.00022

A Low Frequency Survey of Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar
T. Eftekhari et al. 2016 | ApJ | arXiv:1607.08612

Bayesian constraints on the global 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn
Bernardi et al. 2016 | ApJ | arXiv:1606.06006

Pulsar Observations Using the First Station of the Long Wavelength Array and the LWA Pulsar Data Archive
Stovall et al. 2015 | ApJ | arXiv:1411.3751v2

Digital Signal Processing using Stream High Performance Computing: A 512-input Broadband Correlator for Radio Astronomy
Kocz et al. 2015 | JAI | arXiv:1411.3751v2