Curriculum Vitæ

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 Education

Ph.D. in Physics

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2020 – 2026, est.

B.A. cum laude in Physics, Mathematics, and Classical Studies
Minor in Computer Science

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2016 – 2020

 Research

2024 • Cosmological Simulations of Stellar Halos with Gaia Sausage–Enceladus Analogues: Two Sausages, One Bun?

DF, M. Lisanti, L. Necib, D. Horta, M. Vogelsberger, L. Hernquist
arXiv:2408.02723, Accepted to ApJ

2023 • Probabilistic Inference of the Structure and Orbit of Milky Way Satellites with Semi-Analytic Modeling

DF, O. Slone, M. Lisanti, F. Jiang, M. Kaplinghat
arXiv:2311.05676, Published MNRAS, 536, 2891 (2025)

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2020 • Next-to-Leading Order Simulation of Singlet Vector-like Quarks Decaying to a Bottom Quark and W Boson

Undergraduate thesis, earned highest departmental honors
Supervised by J. Haley and W. Johns
Contributed to ATLAS internal note ATL-COM-PHYS-2020-152

2019 • NSF Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates

at Oklahoma State University, supervised by J. Haley
Contributed to ATLAS internal note ATL-COM-PHYS-2019-1026

 Talks

Halo-to-Halo Similarity in IllustrisTNG Dark Matter Velocity Distributions (poster)

Dark Matter Symposium – UCLA DM
University of California, Los Angeles, March 2025

Probabilistic Inference of the Structure and Orbit of Milky Way Satellites with Semi-Analytic Modeling

TeV Particle Astrophysics – TeVPA
University of Chicago, August 2024

Two Sausages, One Bun? GSEs in TNG (poster)

Small Galaxies, Cosmic Questions II
Durham University, July 2024

Probabilistic Inference of the Structure and Orbit of Milky Way Satellites with Semi-Analytic Modeling

Local Local Group Group – L2G2
Columbia University, December 2023

Semi-Analytic Inference of the Dark Matter Structure of Satellite Galaxies

Galactic Frontiers: Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume and Beyond
Flatiron Institute, June 2023

 Teaching, Mentorship, and Service

Undergraduate Advising

Worked with Tal Shpigel on summer project "Stellar Tracers of Dark Matter Kinematics in GSE-like Mergers from the IllustrisTNG Simulation"

Continuing to advise Tal on Princeton Junior Paper research

Assistant in Instruction

PHY 105: Advanced Physics (Mechanics, Lab), Fall 2023, Fall 2024

PHY 104: General Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism, Lab), Spring 2023

PHY 115: Physics for Future Leaders, Fall 2022

PHY 110: General Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism), Summer 2022

PHY 109: Physics Methods and Applications (Mechanics), Spring 2022

PHY 105: Advanced Physics (Mechanics), Fall 2021

Resident Graduate Student, Butler College

2021 – 2022

 Honors and Awards

Joseph H. Taylor Graduate Student Fellowship

2024, Princeton University Department of Physics

President's Fellowship

2020 & 2021, Princeton University Graduate School

Joseph Henry Merit Prize

2020, Princeton University Department of Physics

Nancy and William McMinn Scholarship for Physics

2017 – 2020, Vanderbilt University Department of Physics

STEM and Business Scholarship

2016 – 2020, Scarlett Family Foundation

Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honors Society

Inducted 2019

Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honors Society

Inducted 2018