I completed an undergraduate concentration in astrophysics at Bucknell University, where I did research simulating plasmid transmission in bacterial populations. I then attended University of Delaware, where I performed research under Dr. Edward Lyman. There, I worked with molecular dynamics simulations and developed methods to simulate fluorescence correlation spectroscopy measurements from simulated particle trajectories, which we used to analyze protein diffusion in lipid bilayers. I'm now a PhD student and member of the Zuckerman Lab at OHSU, where I am developing methods for analyzing molecular dynamics trajectories.