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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Leading development efforts of chemical and digital solutions for cleaning and disinfecting food and beverage processing equipment at a global scale.

Greater Seattle Area

Anaheim, Ca

Lead development projects related to slurry formulation for polishing a wide range of substrates serving the industrial, IC, power electronics, and hard disk drive markets.Developed, validated, and launched a new product geared towards polishing silicon wafer substrates.Supported development work on polishing Glass, Silicon carbide, Aluminum Nitride, Aluminum and Copper wafers.

Northboro, Massachusets, Usa

Abrasive Grains - Development of novel abrasive grain production methods - Detailed shape and characterization methods implementedSurface Conditioning - Development of new particles for polishing applications in IC, power electronics, and LED markets - Formulation of cleaners, polishing slurries, and other industrial fluids - Transversal work in the development of composite particles for demanding applications

Greater Seattle Area

Investigated the use of thermodynamic models to predict adhesion in filled polymeric composites. Found that the Gibbs free energy of mixing, as calculated by the COSMO-SAC model, is able to predict the trends in the relative adhesion between glass beads treated with various different silane coupling agents and four different thermoplastic polymers. Developed a fluorescence microscopy method to track the movement of nanoparticles during the cure of an epoxy based thermoset. The method was used to track and study the preferential accumulation of nanoparticles at carbon and glass fiber surfaces in the presence of a thermoplastic "migrating agent." Characterizing the quality of the interphase was confirmed with SEM, and the mechanical properties were investigated using a mechanical load frame, and the single fiber fragmentation technique.Genetic engineering of E. Coli to produce modified proteins containing large zwitterionic peptide blocks. Zwitterionic molecules and polymers have been shown to, in some cases, increase the stability of proteins without significant decreases in catalytic activity. Direct expression of the protein with a zwitterionic segment was theorized to improve the protein's stability.

Frederickson, Wa

Thermal and mechanical analysis of thermosetting resins, including TGA, DSC, DMA, FTIR, and DEA. Developed calibrations for many of the techniques as well as written standard operating procedures. Prepared programs that automate data analysis, and extract kinetic parameters from various data sets.

San Francisco Bay Area

Studied the adsorption of NOx gases onto three way catalysts used in automotive exhaust cleanup. Specifically, the adsorption kinetics of NO and NO2, in the presence of CO2 were studied on BaO nanoparticles dispersed on an aluminum oxide support. XRD, FTIR, BET, and Mass Spectrometry were all utilized to investigate the adsorption kinetics of to characterize the samples.

Phd Candidate, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Association of Chemical Engineering Graduate Students - Outreach Chair, Engineering Discovery Days Mentor.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineerng

Activities and Societies: Resident Hall Assistant, AICHE West - Paper Competition 1st place, Smash Bears - Vice President, Raised.