About me

I am a Postdoctoral Associate in Adam Willard’s group at MIT. I obtained my PhD in August 2020 from the University of Maine under the supervision of Jay Rasaiah. On this website you can find recent personal news and information related to my research, publications, and talks.

Recent News

7 June 2022 I was selected for a postdoctoral fellowship from the NSF! The fellowship will start on 1 September 2022.
14 February 2022 I was recognized with the Mentorship Spotlight Award by the chemistry department at MIT.
25 November 2021 I and fellow Willard group member, Yizhi Shen, contributed to a project from Jeremiah Johnson’s group which was published in Nature Chemistry.
27 May 2021 I received the Postdoctoral Enrichment award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund!
19 January 2021 Our preprint about water mediated interations in confinement induced helix formation was accepted and published in JPC B as part of the Lawrence R. Pratt Festschrift.
31 August 2020 I started a postdoc position in Adam Willard’s group at MIT!
21 August 2020 I officially completed my PhD!
16 July 2020 Our preprint about ligand-mediated nanocluster formation was published in JPC C. See the Research page for more info about this work.

Funding

Thanks to the following organizations for their support.