I am an associate editor at Nature Communications with a physical chemistry PhD from UNC Chapel Hill. My expertise is in nanomaterials, semiconductors, many-body condensed matter physics, and laser science. During my research career, I built, optimized, and utilized ultrafast laser microscopes to isolate individual nanostructures in materials and observe the movement and relaxation of electrons within and around them. For reference, these structures are 1/1000th the thickness of a human hair and the processes I observed occur in trillionths of a second. This is over a billion times faster than the rate at which a hummingbird flaps its wings.
My research focused on layered semiconducting materials (namely transition metal dichalcogenides) and perovskites that are useful in solar cells, photonics, and catalysis. My work also contributed to the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate via the NC Space Grant graduate fellowship.
