Highlights:

Skills:Spectroscopy, Microscopy, STM, Synchrotrons, MATLAB, SolidWorks, CAD, Python, Fortran, XPS, Diffraction, Software development

Research Scientist 01/2022 - current
The University of Minnesota, , United States
• Conducted experimental/computational study of sickle cell polymer to inform molecular medicine design. • Created simulation of the aggregation of blood molecules to pinpoint vulnerable bonds in sickle cell disease. • Investigated potential methods for first quantitative diagnosis of sickle cell disease. • Established collaborations for feasibility studies outside of the University. • Wrote six software packages for improved imaging of cells and microtissues.
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Research Fellow 07/2019 - 04/2021
The University of Texas at Austin, , United States
• Oversaw the development of a system to undertake computed tomography of pressurized heart valves using SolidWorks and LabVIEW. • Developed software to undertake novel structural and mechanical characterization of soft tissues using simultaneous light scattering and digital image correlation analysis. • Supervised design and fabrication of tissue loading system that reduced experimental time by a factor of 4.
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Research Associate 01/2015 - 04/2019
The University of Edinburgh, , United Kingdom
• Invented and manufactured micro-pillared surfaces to separate solvent waste from water. • Led generation of humidity sensing prototype for utilization on a Mars rover. • Conceived and constructed microfluidic channels with integrated heating, pressure, and temperature measurements for pioneering measurements of heat transfer in CPU cooling systems for under $300. • Amended widely used (10,000 publications since 1940) fluid/material interface equation, explaining and correcting its failure to predict practical outcomes in up to 77% of cases.
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Research Student 10/2009 - 01/2015
University College London, , United Kingdom
• Made first ever electronic measurement (scanning tunneling microscopy) of wide-band gap semiconductor nuclear fusion blanket material. • Augmented software package for low energy electron diffraction IV analysis to incorporate the co-investigation of multi-phased atomic surfaces. • Completed two synchrotron investigations (XPS, NEXAFS) of automobile catalytic system and a solar cell dye analogue at the Diamond Light Source, Oxford and the Advanced Light Source, UC Berkeley.
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University College London 10/2009 - 01/2015
, , United Kingdom
Degree: Doctoral Degree
Major:Materials Science
• Made first ever electronic measurement (scanning tunneling microscopy) of wide-band gap semiconductor nuclear fusion blanket material. • Augmented software package for low energy electron diffraction IV analysis to incorporate the co-investigation of multi-phased atomic surfaces. • Completed two synchrotron investigations (XPS, NEXAFS) of automobile catalytic system and a solar cell dye analogue at the Diamond Light Source, Oxford and the Advanced Light Source, UC Berkeley.

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