Research Experience

Established new program of study in research group, including technique development, equipment acquisition, and analysis methodology, resulting in 2+ follow-on grants with collaborators across 4 disciplines, 2+ industry partnerships, & 7+ manuscripts

Managed lab growth from 4 to 31 researchers over 3 years, including authoring 30+ SOPs, onboarding 25 researchers, and directly mentoring 4 undergraduates and 2 PhD students

Used a variety of analytical tools, systems, and techniques - flow electrolyzers, membrane electrode assemblies, HPLC, GC, MATLAB, magnetron sputter-coaters, advanced airbrushing systems, & SEM/EDX - to evaluate systems and analyze data

Wrote multiple successful project proposals to competitive opportunities, including (1) external summer fellowship proposal (<10% funding rate), (2) internal academic proposal (~20% funding rate), (3) named fellowship postdoctoral proposal (<20% conversion rate)

Professional Experience

First non-founding employee at a startup in biotechnology, developing approaches for more equitable clinical trials

National lab research fellow in earth science, using accelerated experimentation techniques to identify reaction drivers of PFAS degradation

Tech transfer and patent law intern, evaluating >50 invention disclosures by conducting prior art searches, market assessments, and industry analyses

Conference deputy director & marketing lead managing advertising and promotional materials and a team of 13 organizers; >100 graduate students attended the conference despite widespread program cancellations

Former U.S. national team member & NCAA Woman of the Year nominee (highest honor given to a female collegiate athlete in the U.S.) from 2017-2021