Amy Secunda


Hello! I am a graduate student in Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. My main research interests are accretion disks, computational MHD, and plasma physics, but I’ve worked on everything from reionization to planet formation. My thesis is on using inter-waveband lags in AGN photometry to learn about AGN disk structure.

Thesis Research

Modeling disk structure, turbulence, and the reprocessing of X-rays into UV light curves with Athena++

Detecting negative lags on the inflow timescale

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