Welcome! My name is Alyssa and I'm ridiculously curious about the universe. Check out the "Masterclass" tab to get my latest Masterclass on Time!

 

Since receiving my PhD from UMass Amherst in 2022, I've been teaching and expanding my mind and research into new dimensions.  Starting this fall, I'll be joining the Physics and Astronomy faculty at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. This past year, I was a Visiting Professor in Physics and Astronomy at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

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I'm currently developing a new theory of multi-dimensional time, centered on a geometrically unfolding coordinate system. This system aims to map how different planes of existence connect through the very unfolding of space-time. Stay tuned...

 

My Astrophysics 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).  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 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 Milky Way star formation, studying the clustering properties of pre-stellar cores in the MonocerosR2 molecular cloud (Sokol et al. 2019). 

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