Experience

UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• PhD student in Chemical Engineering

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  PhD Chemical engineering student with a focus on “Designer” protein-modifying enzymes for bio-medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology. Utilize and establish methods of protein engineering and design to redefine and redesign the substrate specificity of protein-modifying enzymes in order to repurpose them as novel therapeutic and diagnostic modalities. Enzymes that catalyze site-specific protein modifications, including kinases, methyltransferases, proteases and protein ligases, among others, play vital roles in regulating cellular processes. Understanding the substrate specificity of these enzymes is instrumental to gain insight into their physiological mechanisms, establish potential druggable targets, and leverage or redesign their specificity. Show less



ChemTalk

• United States
• Strategic Management Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • 2021 - Present

  ChemTalk (chemistrytalk.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to science education and outreach, making chemistry fun and easy to learn for the entire planet. Everything we offer is free, ad-free and barrier-free. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to our mission. We also promote material science & the life sciences. We have a goal of making our website the #1 chemistry education portal in the world by 2022, and we are more than halfway there. We are building the world’s first virtual SciComm lab, called the ChemTalk LiveLab. It is a professional lab space where science is live-streamed and millions of people can be reached real-time, interactively in homes and classrooms, through the latest technology and live-streaming platforms. We aim to revolutionize how people experience chemistry and science. We promote chemistry to kids, students, adults, and everyone in between. We do this through education, tutorials, info-graphics, photos, long and short-form videos, our podcast, a variety of social media, and highlighting exciting chemistry jobs & research – to make chemistry enjoyable and gratifying. Show less



HydroFlux Technology

• Santa Monica, California, United States

• Chemical Engineering Specialist

  • Jun 2020 - Jun 2022

  HydroFlux technology uses colloidal science instead of inorganic chemistry to control scale. - The operating principles of the Halbach Array Magnetic Ring water treatment system are based on four essential methods of action: Halbach Rare Earth magnetic array; interaction of the induced magnetic field with colloidal particles; control of microbial populations; and corrosion control. - The Magnetic array works by changing how calcium carbonate and other dissolved minerals precipitate from solution. The Halbach arrays activate colloidal nucleation sites in the bulk solution. These activated sites become the preferential nucleation sites for precipitation from a calcite to an aragonite crystalline structure. The amorphous precipitate, once generated, does not adhere to the pipe wall but remains with the bulk solution and is removed via blowdown and/or side-stream filtration. Show less



Integrity Bio

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lab Associate

  • Jul 2020 - Sep 2020

  Integrity Bio specializes in biologics formulation development and drug product manufacturing and has formulated over 200 biologics including vaccines, antibodies, proteins, and peptides for more than 150 firms ranging from Fortune 500 biotech companies to virtual start-ups. The company has expertise in hard-to-formulate products in liquid and lyophilized forms. Integrity Bio specializes in biologics formulation development and drug product manufacturing and has formulated over 200 biologics including vaccines, antibodies, proteins, and peptides for more than 150 firms ranging from Fortune 500 biotech companies to virtual start-ups. The company has expertise in hard-to-formulate products in liquid and lyophilized forms.