Brenna is a CTAC postdoctoral fellow interested in using high energy transients to learn about the growth and evolution of supermassive black holes and the environments that they live in. Most of her research is at the nexus of theory and observation, building theoretical models of what the emission from transients looks like and connecting them to observations. She is a particular expert on tidal disruption events, and one of the lead developers of the MOSFiT transient fitting code.