Experience

Mooji Meats (YC W22)

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Development Lead

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Baltimore, Maryland, United States I serve as the technical lead for Mooji Meats, overseeing product development, commercialization, and operations. On a day-to-day level, this means that I do a bit of everything! My favorite part is still tasting everything we make, but it's also pretty fun to see finished product get shipped out the door!

• Senior Research Engineer and Founding Engineer

  • Jan 2023 - Sep 2023

  Baltimore, Maryland, United States I led the hardware development for machines that make plant-based steak. I also worked closely with the formulation team (the machine informs formulation and vice versa). Of course, as with any small startup, I also did a bit of everything! This included helping with consumer testing, setting up systems to store and share data, participating in hiring, and (my favorite part), tasting everything!

• Research Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Jan 2023

  Baltimore, Maryland, United States



PWE Consulting Services

• Technical Consultant

  • Nov 2019 - Jul 2022

  Somerville, Massachusetts, United States I provide design services, technical feedback, and project management services related to microfluidics. I have helped clients enter the space by providing equipment recommendations, initial set-up and training, and initial device/chip designs. I have also helped clients by overseeing device development and testing from an initial prototype phase all the way to procuring and evaluating pre-production chips/devices from contract manufacturers. The majority of my work has been in the… Show more I provide design services, technical feedback, and project management services related to microfluidics. I have helped clients enter the space by providing equipment recommendations, initial set-up and training, and initial device/chip designs. I have also helped clients by overseeing device development and testing from an initial prototype phase all the way to procuring and evaluating pre-production chips/devices from contract manufacturers. The majority of my work has been in the biotechnology sector, but I am not limited to this field alone. Show less



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2018 - Jul 2022

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States I worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of David A. Weitz at Harvard University. My current research sat at the intersection of microfluidics and biology, where I developed microfluidic techniques and workflows to enable quantitative biology.



Georgia Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • May 2012 - May 2018

  Atlanta, GA Member of the Soft Condensed Matter Laboratory under Dr. Alberto Fernandez-Nieves. I worked with both active and passive liquid crystals, and focused on understanding how the intrinsic liquid-crystalline order interacts with curved surfaces and boundaries.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - May 2014

  Atlanta, GA Taught laboratory and recitation sections, grade homework and tests, and tutor students in Physics 2211, calculus-based mechanics. Occasionally lectured, held weekly office hours, and graded homework and tests for Physics 3141, Thermodynamics. Developed laboratory modules for Physics P21CS, Physics for 21st century students. Developed and ran laboratory modules for a graduate student course in Soft Matter Physics.



Scripps College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Claremont, CA Assisted with laboratory sessions, tutored students, and graded homework assignments for General Physics 31, calculus-based Electricity and Magnetism.



Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinic Team Leader

  • Sep 2010 - May 2011

  Claremont, CA Served as the team leader for the Dynamic Transmission Electon Microscope (DTEM) Clinic Team at Harvey Mudd College. The project was sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Developed a test bed to evaluate the photocathode for a DTEM in order to overcome limiting factors in the current setup. As team leader, managed the four-person team and interacted with the project liasons.



Harvey Mudd College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Claremont, CA Characterized the binding of antibodies to gold nanospheres in order to mark growing corneal cells. Used Optical Coherence Tomography to assay phenotype expression of marked corneal tissue in vivo as part of a larger corneal engineering project.



Harvey Mudd College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Sep 2009 - Dec 2009

  Claremont, CA Designed and built an apparatus to produce high energy electrons via pulling Scotch sticky-tape in a vacuum. Designed a mechanical system to measure the spectrum of the emitted electrons from the sticky-tape apparatus



SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  Claremont, CA Collaborated as a member of a team to design and implement a GUI in Python for particle analysis for the BaBar Collaboration.