Experience

University of California, Davis - College of Engineering
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Assistant Professor

  • Jul 2023 - Present

Stanford University
• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jan 2021 - Sep 2023

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2021


Union Kitchen

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing Director

  • 2013 - 2015

  • Coordinate social media projects for fifty-five small businesses • Communicate with external businesses and members of the press • Lead weekly marketing meetings detailing completed and future projects • Coordinate social media projects for fifty-five small businesses • Communicate with external businesses and members of the press • Lead weekly marketing meetings detailing completed and future projects



University of Massachusetts Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Feb 2012 - Jun 2013

  Independent Honors Thesis - "Stiffness and Nanotopography Cues within an Engineered Microenvironment" •Developed microenviornments to analyze breast cancer dependence on modulus and stiffness •Collaborated with external labs to create lines of Cd/Se and PDMS in a sterile, dust-free environment •Defended thesis before a committee of Professors and Ph.D candidates The Peyton Lab •Fabricated polymer scaffolding as microenvironment for breast cancer cell lines •Evaluated cell phenotype response to biomaterials utilizing high resolution, time-lapse microscopy and computational analysis using IMARIS and MATLAB Show less



Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC)

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  The Salk Institute for Biological Studies—The Noel Lab •Altered the active site of a polyketide synthase to elucidate the mechanism by which it works and to increase the kinetics of product production •Collected and Quantified protein production using Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry University of California, Irvine – The Da Silva Lab •Metabolically engineered S. cerevisiae to produce α-pyrone •Determined the effect of desired product, α-pyrone, on S. cerevisiae •Presented results of REU in a poster and PowerPoint presentation Show less