Intern at the research and development for the chemical manufacturing side of Stoner inc. Most of my time is spent formulating and testing new products.

Awarded a full summer scholarship under Dionisios Vlachos at the Delaware Energy Institute (DEI) running six-hour experiments >40 hours a week using platform chemicals made from biomass to create neo acids in a two-stage reaction process. Neo acids are highly branched synthetic trialkyl acetic acids which can be used as a building block to create a spectrum of commercially valuable products such as lubricants, adhesives, personal care products, surfactants, paints, coatings, and plasticizers. Presented 10 weeks of work at the UD Summer Scholars Symposium.

Worked under Marianthi Ierapetritou using the programming language Gams to find optimized lifecycle analyses of renewable biomass in the supply chain process.