I am a Assistant Professor Of Physics in the Physics department at ECU. I have a record of successful and productive collaborative research projects in the fields of hemostasis and mechanobiology, focusing on the mechanical properties of biopolymers and adhesion molecules. My research experience includes using fluorescence microscopy, atomic force microscopy, laser tweezers, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and Bio-Layer Interferometry (BLI), molecular biology methodologies, and structural biology techniques to study the structure-function relationships of mechanical proteins.I have studied fibrin and its structural and mechanical properties for the past fifteen years. I made the first measurements of fibrin recoil dynamics, pioneered research into fibrin fiber strain stiffening, and was among the first to propose that the αC region could mediate fibrin’s mechanical properties. In recent years, especially during my time at ECU, I have studied blood clot structure during polymerization and fibrinolysis.