Experience

Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Engineering Ambassadors Network

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Nashville, TN Organize, promote, and teach for the annual Engineering Day event hosted at Vanderbilt Campus, where 50-80 7th graders are brought to learn about all of the different avenues a college engineering degree has to offer. Lessons are given in six different engineering disciplines and the kids from local public city schools get to learn hands on skills in small groups to expose them to the types of thinking that makes for an inquisitive and thoughtful researcher.



Vanderbilt University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher under Dr. Clare McCabe

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  Nashville, Tennessee, United States Enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Molecular Science Program and study the field of Soft Matter Molecular Simulations. Projects include: coated surfaces to understand effect of molecular moieties on interfacial properties, software development of molecular simulations tools within a TRUE (Transferable, Reproducible, Usable by others, and Extensible) framework of building computational research workflows, and simulations of colloidal nanoparticle self-assembly.



Case Western Reserve University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer REU under Dr. Ozan Akkus

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Cleveland, Ohio, United States Research experience through the Bio-Inspired Materials Program. Worked on osteocyte bone generation developed to grow and test 3D bone architectures. Developed a secondary project for processing methodologies of purified nanocellulose from SCOBY for applications in food additives and manufacturing.

• Summer REU under Dr. LaShanda Korley

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Cleveland, Ohio, United States Research experience through the Bio-Inspired Materials Program. Worked on polymer synthesis, processing, and testing for self-healing polymer gels. Developed tagging method to view moieties of intramolecular "healing" process through Fluorescence Microscopy.