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Resume

Experience

Starting 2023

Peter Buck Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Washington, DC

2016 - 2022

Graduate Research Associate

School of Earth & Space Exploration,
Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

2020 - 2022

Transportation Commissioner

City of Tempe, AZ

Education

2016 - 2022

Arizona State University

PhD, Planetary Materials Science

Tempe, AZ

2012 - 2016

College of William & Mary

BS Cum Laude, Geology

Williamsburg, VA

Laboratory Instrumentation

Scanning Electron Microscopy

X-ray microanalysis: XPS, EDS, crystallography

Ion Beam irradiation & analysis

Optical microscopy & reflectance spectrometry

Laser Ablation techinques

General: sample prep, polishing, benchtop chemistry

Information Technology

Python: data analysis & plotting

GIS: ArcMap, QGIS, JMARS

LaTeX: Text editing

Image Processing: ImageJ, Inkscape, Illustrator, GIMP

Microsoft Office Suite

CAD: SolidWorks, Autodesk 360, Sketchup

Languages

English (academically fluent)

German (conversationally proficient)

French, Latin, Japanese (previously studied)

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