Welcome! My name is Alyssa and I received my PhD in Astrophysics from UMass Amherst in 2022. 

 

I am currently a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.  My research focuses on understanding the nature of  co-evolution between galaxies and their central supermassive black holes across cosmic time using multi-wavelength observations (Sokol et al. 2023). While my PhD thesis focused on distant galaxies and active black holes, at large I'm also interested the many scales of star formation astrophysics that make up our fractal, hierarchical, and fundamentally connected universe. In my graduate career I've also researched star clusters in nearby dwarf galaxies, investigating the universal nature of star formation in these low-density environments. Prior to this I worked on the clustering properties of pre-stellar cores in the MonocerosR2 molecular cloud using data from the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico (Sokol et al. 2019). 

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Since finishing my PhD, I am keen on expanding my research into understanding how quantum physics, consciousness, and astrophysics work together to explain our universe and existence. I'm fascinated by time, dimensions, and coordinates--my goal is to create a coordinate system of time that doesn't currently exist. This system will map out, and reveal, how different planes of existence connect and exchange information.  Stay tuned...

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