
ABOUT ME
My research interests broadly focus on the interactions between contaminants and engineered and natural surfaces.
I am an NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow in the Molecular Environmental Geochemistry Group at Princeton University's Department of Geosciences researching interactions between micro/nanoplastics and inorganic pollutants. I was previously awarded a Harry H. Hess Postdoctoral Fellowship for this research.
I am originally from Montclair, New Jersey and completed my bachelor's degree with a double major in chemistry and geology at Middlebury College.
I graduated with my PhD in May, 2020 from the Yale School of the Environment, a member of the Zimmerman Lab and the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. My dissertation focused on the design of novel selective and multifunctional biomaterial adsorbents for oxyanion removal from drinking water.
Prior to Yale, I spent a year as a researcher with Dartmouth's Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program conducting research on the environmental fate of mercury at a Superfund site in Northern New Hampshire.

Performing EXAFS (Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure) experiments at the Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron Particle Accelerator (APS)
Education
Awards
2016
Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) Honorable Mention
National Science Foundation
2015-2020
Yale University
School of the Environment
Ph.D. Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
2017
Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Oral Presentation Style and Content
ACS Environmental Chemistry Division
2017
CIBA Travel Award
ACS Green Chemistry Institute
2016
Best Poster Presentation
ACS Green Chemistry and Green Engineering Conference
2010-2014
Middlebury College
B.A. Geology and Chemistry
Magna Cum Laude
Geology Departmental Honors
2021
Royal Society of Chemistry Outstanding Reviewer
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
2021
NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
National Science Foundation
2020
Schmidt Science Fellow Nominee
Yale University/Schmidt Science Fellows Program
2020
ACS ENVR Graduate Student Award
ACS Environmental Chemistry Division
2019
AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science
AAAS/Science
2018
Nathan Hale Associates Fellow for Academic Achievement and Potential
Yale Graduate School Alumni Fund
2015, 2017
YIBS Fellowship
Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies
Relevant Work Experience
2012
Baldwin Cooney Scholarship
Middlebury College Geology Department
2012
Gretchen A. Reilly '60 Environmental Studies Endowment
Middlebury College
2015-2020
Doctoral Fellowship
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies