
Bio
Early career instrument scientist serving the Multimodal Advanced Radiography Station at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. Trained as an experimental condensed matter physicist with a specialization in neutron scattering techniques. Research interests include nuclear materials development and characterization, hydrogen diffusion phenomena under extreme conditions, applications of physical acoustics, and instrumentation & hardware development.
Professional Experience
- Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022 - 2023)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate at 91°µÍø (2019 - 2021)
- Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Missouri (2014 - 2019)
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at Rowan University (2014)
Awards
- 2023 Large-team Distinguished Performance Award at Los Alamos National Laboratory (August 2023)
- 2019 University of Missouri Boain Ph.D. Dissertation Award (November 2019)
- "Best Student Poster" awards (2018 and 2019)
- 91°µÍø Graduate Opportunity (GO!) Fellowship (2017 - 2019)
- Excellence in Electron Microscopy at the University of Missouri Electron Microscopy Core (2017)
- Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) (2014 - 2017)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2014)
Education
- Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics, University of Missouri, July 2019
- M.S. Condensed Matter Physics, University of Missouri, May 2016
- B.S. Physics, Rowan University, May 2014
Professional Affiliations
- Materials Research Society
- Acoustical Society of America
- Neutron Scattering Society of America
- American Nuclear Society
Specialized Equipment
Publications
Other Publications
Report
September 2023
Report
January 2023
Journal: Physical Review B
September 2022
Report
September 2022
Report
August 2022
Journal: AIP Advances
June 2022
Journal: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
July 2021
Neutron Scattering and Microscopy Studies of the Structure and Dynamics of Water Near a Nanostructured Hydrophilic Copper Oxide Surface
Dissertation
2019
Journal: Journal of Applied Physics
January 2019
Journal: Europhysics Letters
August 2018