Amy Secunda


Hello! I am a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in NYC. My main research interests are AGN variability and accretion disks, computational MHD, and applying machine learning to time domain astronomy, but I’ve worked on everything from reionization to planet formation.

Current Research

Modeling disk structure, turbulence, and the reprocessing of X-ray irradiation into UV emission with Athena++

Using ML to detect negative lags on the inflow timescale to measure the vertical structure of AGN disks

Predicting little red dot variability

Forecasting for Vera Rubin Observatory

Previous Research

Swirling gas non-ideal MHD MRI experiment

AGN disk LIGO merger channel

Stellar Binary Evolution in the Epoch of Reionization

Identifying substructure in the distant Milky Way stellar halo