Elise Fuller

Hi, I’m Elise! I’m a PhD student in APS passionate about discovering how galaxies and the universe as a whole evolve. I’m incredibly excited to continue tackling astrophysical questions at the largest scales at CU Boulder.

As a physics undergraduate at the University of Michigan, I worked to develop a computational pipeline for optical follow-up to gravitational wave events, with the goal of resolving the Hubble tension through novel measurements of the Hubble constant.  During a summer REU at Carnegie Mellon University, I spent time training a neural network to identify transient events observed with the Dark Energy Camera.  At UMich, I also researched what drives the outflows of radio-quiet quasars, which are theorized to play an integral role in the evolution of massive galaxies by regulating their star formation – work I continued as a post-bachelor researcher which resulted in a paper recently submitted to the Astrophysical Journal (pending publication).

Outside of research, I love doing yoga, hiking, writing, and hanging out with my dog and cat. I also love everything artistic and musical, and even went to school for Theatre and Film for a while. Feel free to chat with me about just about anything!