Experience

Mosaic Materials

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing R&D Lead

  • Jul 2022 - Present

• Scientist

  • Jun 2021 - Jul 2022



University of Delaware

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  My doctoral research focused on the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel permanently porous materials with an emphasis on porous coordination cages. My early work focused on expanding the relatively small library of first row transition metal-based materials to include iron(II), cobalt(II) and nickel(II). Precise ligand functionalization was leveraged as a means of controlling the phase of these solids and allowed for phase-pure isolation of either cages or higher-dimensional materials. In an analogous manner, functionalization of dicarboxylate ligands was used to study and control the speciation in a highly promising class of zirconium-based cages. I have also prepared a series of related metal-organic frameworks to study the adsorption of small molecules, including hydrogen, methane, and C2 hydrocarbons. Through a combination of low- and high-pressure gas adsorption experiments, in combination with powder neutron and X-ray diffraction experiments, I was able to identify the preferential gas binding sites within these materials.More recently, I have focused on a combinatorial approach wherein charged porous coordination cages can be used for the isolation of porous salts. These materials, which were recently reported for the first time in a high-impact publication in The Journal of the American Chemical Society, represent a brand-new class of porous solids with near endless tunability. Show less



Berkeley Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Guest Researcher

  • Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

  As a recipient of the Department of Energy's Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program, I had the invaluable experience of conducting my own research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Brett Helms at the Molecular Foundry. Here, I gained experience in conducting research at a renown national laboratory focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel charged-coordination cage-based porous salts. As a recipient of the Department of Energy's Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program, I had the invaluable experience of conducting my own research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Brett Helms at the Molecular Foundry. Here, I gained experience in conducting research at a renown national laboratory focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel charged-coordination cage-based porous salts.



Susquehanna University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operation Crew Manager

  • Sep 2012 - May 2016