I am a cosmochemist and senior Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. As a cosmochemist, I use the isotopic compositions of materials found in meteorites to uncover the history of our Solar System. As the manager of WUSTL’s ims 7f-GEO facility, I help internal and external users answer diverse scientific questions about their samples.
I have previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where I developed new methods for NanoSIMS analyses to search for and characterize isotopically anomalous material in meteorites to better understand how our Solar System formed and evolved. As a contract NanoSIMS Scientist and Lab Manager at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, I developed methods to extract and analyze Stardust material and characterized presolar grain inventories of primitive meteorites.
I earned my Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA in 2022, where I was advised by Professor Kevin McKeegan and Professor Edward Young. My doctoral research focused on using stable and radiogenic isotope systems to understand the alteration histories of meteorites and Ryugu samples.
I graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago in 2015, receiving my Bachelor of Science in Geophysical Science. I was advised by Professor Fred Ciesla and Dr. Philipp Heck (Field Museum of Natural History), and completed an honors thesis entitled Measurement of Thermal Properties of the Ordinary Chondrites Relevant to Planet-Forming Processes.
