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About Me

I study energy because I believe the clean energy transition is one of the major challenges of this century, with the potential to positively impact the wellbeing of billions of people now and in the future through mitigating the worst impacts of climate change, reducing pollution, and making cheap clean energy available to all. (Also, energy is cool.) I use physics-based models to study the coupled effects of electrochemical reaction kinetics, fluid and energy transport, and mechanical response of materials at scales from nanoscale molecular simulations to device-level continuum models. I am a chemical engineer by training, a computational modeler in practice, and a constantly curious lifelong learner by nature.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Energy Conversion Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, developing continuum-scale electrochemical models of water electrolyzers for the generation of clean hydrogen. I previously earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in the Qin Lab at Stanford University on theory and simulation of next-generation lithium metal batteries. In my free time, I enjoy backpacking, cycling, diving, trail running, triathlons, reading, and spending time with friends, among other pursuits. I hope to use this site as a place to communicate my research and my journey through life. Please reach out if you are curious about my work!

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