Experience 2019–current: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 2016–2019: LSRF Merck Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor F. Dean Toste, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 2011–2016: Graduate student with Professor Jeremiah A. Johnson, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009–2011: Undergraduate researcher with Professor SonBinh T. Nguyen, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University 2008: Undergraduate researcher with Professor Tobin J. Marks, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University Education 2016: PhD in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011: BA/MS in Chemistry, BA in Mathematics and the Integrated Science Program, Northwestern University Selected Awards ACS PRF (2022) DoE Early Career Award (2022) NSF CAREER Award (2021) 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2021) Junior Faculty Development Award (2021) Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science & Engineering (2018) ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar (2018) Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (2018, co-recipient with Ph.D. advisor Professor Jeremiah A. Johnson) LSRF Merck Postdoctoral Fellow (2016–2019) ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Fellowship (2014, declined) Intel PhD Fellowship (2014) DoD NDSEG Fellowship (2011–2014) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2011, declined)
