Who I am
and why fusion.

I'm a nuclear engineering undergraduate at Texas A&M, pursuing minors in mathematics and physics. My long-term focus is fusion energy research — not because it's fashionable, but because I think it's one of the only real exits from the civilizational rut humanity has dug.

The physics is extraordinarily hard. The engineering is harder. The timeline is uncertain. I find all of this more motivating than discouraging — problems worth solving are usually difficult.

I communicate about this publicly because the lane is essentially empty. There are excellent science communicators and there are fusion researchers, but very few people doing both with real domain knowledge and the willingness to not simplify the math. I'm building toward being that person.

How I work

My instinct when I encounter a physical system is to instrument it. The magnetometer, the acoustic resonance mapper, the car DAQ — these are not separate projects. They're the same impulse applied to different systems: build something that makes the invisible visible, then derive the mathematics underneath, then connect it to the physics that actually matters.

I maintain an Obsidian notes ecosystem that connects physics concepts, engineering projects, and mathematical ideas across disciplines. The website you're reading is the public-facing layer of that ecosystem.

Background

Seven years of bassoon, four years of marching saxophone. This gave me real ear training, harmonic understanding, and the experience of executing precisely under pressure — all of which translate in unexpected ways to physics intuition and science communication. I play electric guitar now, specifically an Ibanez AS73G semi-hollow that I'm also using as a physics instrument.