Experience

Cuberg

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• R&D Engineer 2

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Advanced R&D of next-generation lithium metal battery chemistries to enable safe and reliable electric mobility.

• R&D Engineer 1

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Member of the research and development team furthering the enhancement of lithium metal batteries at Cuberg.



University of Oregon

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Fellow

  • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

• Boettcher Lab Undergraduate Researcher

  • Apr 2020 - Sep 2021

  • Studied and characterized metal-oxide nanoparticles as water disassociation catalysts in bipolar membrane electrolyzers to lower the overpotential required for operation and better understand the relevant water disassociation mechanism.• Coded Jupyter notebooks in Python for determining pKa spectrums from potentiometric titrations to characterize metal-oxide nanoparticles under basic and acidic conditions.• Researched the effects of catalyst loading on membranes in bipolar membrane electrolyzers by various spray-coating techniques to determine the optimal catalyst loading for operating performance.• Assisted in constructing COMSOL simulations of bipolar membrane electrolyzers by comparing results to expected performance to lower the required number of experiments and thus the cost of materials. Show less

• Near Peer Learning Mentor

  • Apr 2021 - Jun 2021

  • Assisted fellow undergraduate students during daily general chemistry lectures by guiding students through homework problems in small discussion groups ensuring all students had a solid understanding of core chemistry concepts.

• Summer Intern in McMorran Lab

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

  • Designed Python script for determining design and specific dimensions of electron diffraction gratings that would result in the best theoretical diffraction efficiencies. • Nanofabricated silicon electron diffraction gratings by gas-assisted focused ion-beam etching in a scanning electron microscope and tested their performance in a transmission electron microscope resulting in near ideal diffraction efficiencies. • Published in Applied Optics (Cameron W. Johnson, Dylan H. Bauer, and Benjamin J. McMorran, "Improved control of electron computer-generated holographic grating groove profiles using ion beam gas-assisted etching," Appl. Opt. 59, 1594-1601 (2020)) and presented at the Summer Program for Undergraduate Research Symposium. • Awarded the Weiser Research Prize for significant undergraduate research from the University of Oregon. Show less