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I was born in Maine where I developed a passion for nature, outdoor recreation, and ice hockey. My love of nature and my curiosity for understanding how things work led me to pursue a major in physics at Bowdoin College, where I graduated with an A.B. in 2003. My minor in economics reflects my interest in the science of drawing logical conclusions based on the assumption that people behave rationally. After college, I worked as a technician in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University where my primary duties involved designing, constructing, and deploying (at remote locations around the world) automated air sampling devices used in climate change studies.
I began my graduate studies in Physics at the University of Maine in the fall of 2004, where my doctoral research was carried out at the Laboratory for Surface Science & Technology. I was fortunate to have two major advisors in different departments: Dr. Mauricio Pereira da Cunha in Electrical Engineering and Dr. Robert Lad in Physics. This exposure to multidisciplinary research and education had a profound effect on me and has influenced the way I approach research and mentorship since then. I earned my Ph.D. in physics in 2009 after which I joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. I am currently a Research Scientist in the Materials Synthesis and Integrated Devices group within the Materials Physics and Applications Division at LANL. I am a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Outside of work, I enjoy hiking and snowshoeing, cooking, coffee (roasting, brewing and drinking!), reading non-fiction, and photography.
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