My teaching connects physical intuition with quantitative reasoning and computation. I enjoy helping students understand complex scientific ideas by breaking them into physically motivated steps, then applying those ideas to new problems, datasets, and planetary environments.

Courses Taught

Climate Dynamics — Teaching Fellow, Course Developer, and Guest Lecturer

A graduate-level course on the physical processes governing Earth’s climate, including radiative feedbacks, atmospheric and oceanic circulation, nonlinear dynamics, tipping points, and multiple equilibria.

I helped incorporate hands-on climate modeling into the course using the Community Earth System Model (CESM2). Students ran simulations of preindustrial climate, abrupt 4×CO₂ warming, and the Last Glacial Maximum, then analyzed the model output through computational projects.

Global Warming 101 — Teaching Fellow and Guest Lecturer

An introductory course for STEM majors covering the physical basis of climate change, including the greenhouse effect, radiative forcing, climate feedbacks, and climate sensitivity.

Students worked with satellite observations, reanalysis products, and climate-model output using Jupyter notebooks. They also developed simple Python models to explore the greenhouse effect, hurricane intensity, and the climate response to radiative forcing.

Confronting Climate Change — Teaching Fellow and Section Leader

A general-education course designed primarily for first-year undergraduate students with diverse scientific backgrounds.

In discussion sections, I introduced students to the physical mechanisms underlying climate change while emphasizing that scientific rigor and accessibility are complementary goals. Students practiced explaining climate processes in their own words and connecting physical principles to real-world climate questions.

Space Sciences and Engineering — Teaching Fellow and Course Developer

An upper-level undergraduate course covering the physical principles of spaceflight and planetary exploration.

I helped redevelop the course in a flipped-classroom format. Students derived the rocket equation and implemented numerical models of rocket trajectories, including the effects of drag, thrust, and gravity. They then applied the same principles to Earth, Venus, and Mars.