EDUCATION

2009      Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

                            Minor in Environmental Science

2000      B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder

                            Minor in Biochemistry

POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES

2009-2011     National Research Council Fellow, NOAA Earth Science

                           Research Lab, Chemical Sciences Division 

                           Developing novel instrumentation to measure optical properties of

                           atmospheric aerosol. Deployed instrumentation to Los Angeles and Barbados

                           field campaigns

HONORS               

2011                   Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists

                           (ACCESS XI), Brookhaven National Laboratory

2009-2011     National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow

   

2007-2009     NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellow

PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001-2003               Chemistry Teacher, Teach for America Corps, Bunn High School, N.C.