Supporting the expansion of ARL's Open Campus model to the Northeast - with a focus on building a sustained intellectual community working collaboratively with Army scientists to tackle some of the nation’s most pressing challenges.

Find solutions to difficult adhesive bonding issues in lightweight composite armor for enhanced protection and multi-hit ballistic damage tolerance requirements. Team applies strong academic foundations and experimental know-how, from benchtop to test range, in polymer chemistry, polymer physics, polymer processing, surface chemistry, composite processing, and composite mechanics.Diverse team experience also includes formulating and producing elastomeric components, surface modification via atmospheric plasma, synthesis of surface selective hyperbranched polymers, and development of polymeric phase change materials. Team mentored 20 undergraduate interns, 10 graduate students, and 2 post-docs during my tenure as lead.Latest efforts are leveraging Data Science to generate, manage, and analyze large quantities of complex and multivariate data to provide statistical linkages between fundamental material properties and end-user requirements.

Synthesized, characterized, and commercially piloted a composite fiber sizing designed to yield increased frictional energy dissipation through fiber-matrix pullout during ballistic events experienced by lightweight armor.

The Engine, built by MIT, invests in early-stage tough-tech companies.

Team member in the Advanced Polymer Materials and Processes Division seeking to eliminate hazardous air pollutant epoxy diluents in printed circuit board manufacturing using waterborne substitutes. Investigated the role of the surfactant on fiber-matrix interfacial moisture uptake and polymer viscoelastic response to address long-term durability concerns.

Completed a pharmaceutical drug development design of experiments (DOE) by varying chemical reactant ratios, reaction temperature, and reaction times for an anti-cancer treatment.