Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
I am interested in resolving outstanding fundamental scientific problems that impede the computational materials design process. My immediate goal is to develop a more quantitative understanding of materials synthesis-structure relationships; specifically, to elucidate and predict crystallization pathways through metastable phases during materials formation. My work involves developing new thermodynamic frameworks and density functional theory (DFT)-based tools to investigate solid-aqueous phase equilibria at the nanoscale, competitive nucleation, and constrained equilibria. I also use data-mining techniques to design new technological materials, and to map relationships across the structural and thermodynamic landscape of known materials.
Education and Employment
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Materials Theory Staff Scientist, 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Sciences Division, 2016-2018
Massachusetts institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, 2016
National Science Foundation Graduate Research (NSF GRFP) Fellowship
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Departmental Honors, 2010
B.S., Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, 2010
Honors, Awards and Service
Department of Energy Early Career Award, 'Temperature-Time-Transformation Diagrams for Predictive Solid-State Ceramic Synthesis' ($750K/5Yrs)</a> , 2020
American Chemical Society PRF New Doctoral Investigator Award($110K/2Yrs), 2020
Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator Highlight , 2020
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory SLAM Competition, First Place , 2019
Thomas Young Centre Junior Research Fellowship, 2019
Best Poster Prize, Best Talk in Symposium Prize, MRS Fall 2018 Meeting, 2018
Co-Chair, American Crystallographic Association Session: Computational Crystallography, 2018
Co-Chair, Gordon Research Seminar: Crystal Growth and Assembly, Biddeford, ME, 2017
MS&T: Materials Genome Initiative Data-Mining Grand Challenge Winner, 2016
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) ISSCG Young Researcher Award, 2016
UC Berkeley; Lecturer for Thermodynamics and Phase Transformations in Solids, 2016-18
Keynote Speaker – 6th International Conference on Combinatorial Materials Research, 2015
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, CoolComposites Inc., 2015
MIT Clean Energy Prize – Winner Infrastructure and Resources Track, ($35,000), 2015
MIT Soldier Design Competition – Raytheon Innovation Prize ($5,000), 2015
Faraday Discussion Leeds, UK – Nucleation; Graduate Student Poster Honorable Mention 2015
MIT (MSRP) Minority and Women Undergraduate Research Program; Program Assistant, 2015
MIT MADMEC VI “Materials Solutions for Alternative Energy”, 2nd Place ($6,000) 2014
MRS Materials Hackathon, “Direct Evaluation of Quasicrystal Lattice Energies”, 2nd Place 2014
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2010
Northwestern University Frey Prize, 2nd Place ($8,000) 2010
ASM National Undergraduate Materials Design Competition, 2nd Place ($2,500) 2009
