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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Part of the Molecular Pharmaceutics team at the Boulder site working as a resident pharmaceutical science subject matter expert to influence small molecule early drug candidate selection with respect to drug delivery, bio-performance, and stability.

Boulder, Colorado

• Design and execute fluorescent microscopy experiments to explore particle transport within novel membrane materials
• Develop Matlab code to analyze large data sets and model transport behavior
• Maintain communications with industrial funding source by regularly running meetings, writing reports, and sending email updates.

New York, NY

• Independently managed many different projects simultaneously centered around understanding physics and thermodynamics of anisotropic Janus colloids at the air-water interface and the utilization of this knowledge to.
• Wrote a grant proposal and was awarded the Corning Office of STEM Graduate Research Fellowship which yielded over $75,000 in research funding and a long-term industrial research collaboration
• Initiated and ran a collaboration with the University of Melbourne, leading to multiple conference presentations, research fellowship funding for $3000AUD, and a publication in a high impact journal.
• Presented research at 8 multi-national conferences and symposiums, resulting in numerous awards for outstanding presentations (Best Oral Presentation, Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium, 2019 and Langmuir.

Corning, NY

Designed and executed experiments to synthesize novel high refractive index nanocomposite coatings on glass and characterized their optical properties and processability for applications in augmented reality and antiglare coatings

Harlem, New York

Analyzed rechargeable zinc manganese battery performance post-mortem using optical analysis, x-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. Aided in production of electrode materials.

• Applied a number of laboratory technique to generate microfluidic devices with functionalized silica particles including: photolithography, microfluidic synthesis using PDMS, PEG surface modification and conjugation of.
• Developed kinetic model for a neutravadin/biotin reaction within the microfluidic cell using data from florescent microscopy experiments
• Communicated findings to the funding source (the Army Research Office) through a final presentation and project report

• Authored research proposal and designed research project related to pyrolysis of biomass funded by the Villanova Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• Analyzed characteristics of car produced from a wide range of pyrolysis reactions using a thermogravimetric analyzer and a digital scanning calorimeter to analyze the effect of reactor conditions
• Presented research at Villanova Undergraduate Research Colloquium

Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

• Supported the research of an isotope geochemistry post-doctorate from Colombia University,
• Applied column chemistry to isolate lead, neodymium, rare earth elements and strontium in an ultraclean laboratory environment,
• Produced samples for testing on a thermal ionization mass spectrometer via acid digestion and filament loading
• Analyzed samples using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without Borders, Villanova Student Musical Theatre, AIChEEngineers Without Borders—President 2012.