The awards both cited her work on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and for developing innovative techniques for comparing observable astronomical phenomena with theoretical models.

Her dissertation explores "connections between theoretical, numerical, and observational understanding of [magnetohydrodynamic turbulence] as it applies to the neutral, ionized, and molecular interstellar medium.

[3] She worked with Mark R. Krumholz and others to develop a unified model of disc galaxies, working to explain why disc galaxies have a lower rate of star formation than is predicted by other models.

[4][5] In August 2018, she became an associate research scientist at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics.

She has been working as an assistant professor at Rutgers University in the department of Physics and Astronomy since September 2019.