Postdoc at Agilent Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
Postdoc at Agilent Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
Scientist with experience in basic and applied research at the interface between physics and chemistry.
Mass spectrometry, high vacuum systems, laser systems and optics, data analysis, programming and laboratory automation (MATLAB, C++, LabVIEW).
(Public Company; A; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
April 2009 — Present (9 months)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2008 — April 2009 (9 months)
Contributed to ongoing investigation of nonadiabatic effects in fundamental chemical reactions.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2003 — July 2008 (5 years 2 months)
Built a unique 3-D imaging instrument to study single collisions between atoms and molecules.
Discovered a new mechanism for energy transfer, showing that the textbook model is incomplete; cowriter of an article published in Nature presenting these results.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — March 2007 (2 years 3 months)
Redesigned physical chemistry laboratory course, adding five experiments on modern equipment.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2002 — May 2003 (9 months)
Maintained a wide array of instrumentation (HPLC, GC, CE, UV-vis, FTIR, AA, and CV); directed a team of a dozen teaching assistants covering three different courses in analytical chemistry.
Ph.D. , Physical Chemistry , 2003 — 2008
Dissertation title: "Reactive and inelastic H + D2 collisions: classical recoil, quantum interference, and the tug-of-war mechanism," 2008.
Published in Nature, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters.
Linus Pauling Teaching Award (2007).
BS , Chemistry , 1998 — 2002
Graduated with High Honors (3.95/4.00 GPA).
Undergraduate research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Banks Scholarship in Chemistry (2001), Dow Chemical Centennial Endowed Presidential Scholarship (2001), Shell Oil Company Foundation Scholarship (2000), Rome Study Program Scholarship (1999).