Analytical Food Chemist. My work is based on trace level volatile analysis in foods and beverages using GC-MS. I am currently working on identifying off-aromas, volatile profiling of various hybrid grape species for the USDA funded VitisGen2 project, analyzing smoke taint in smoke affected grapes, identifying fermentation stable novel aroma compounds in the USDA germ plasm in Geneva, NY, and developing high-throughput extraction methods for MS analysis.

I teach homeschooled students in Ithaca physical science demonstrating topics with environmentally available household (mostly kitchen) with the goal of making science more interesting and available to students with all educational backgrounds.