Education

PhD: UC Berkeley; entered 2019

Supervised by K. Birgitta Whaley since Fall 2021

BA: Amherst College (summa cum laude); 2019

Majors: Physics and Mathematics

Thesis Title: Enhancement of Coherence Times in the Molecular Nanomagnet Cr7Mn, (Supervised by Jonathan Friedman)

Other Experience

Visiting graduate researcher at IQOQI Vienna -- Feb-Jun, 2023

Graduate student researcher, Yao group, UC Berkeley -- 2021

Graduate student researcher, Haeffner group, UC Berkeley -- 2020

Undergraduate researcher, Friedman group, Amherst College -- 2016-2019

Presentations Given

How to measure gravitational frame-dragging on Earth with a superfluid interferometer, 41st Jim Isenberg Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,  Cal State Fullerton, April 2025

How to measure gravitational frame-dragging on Earth with a superfluid interferometer, APS April Meeting 2025 

Towards a measurement of gravitational frame-dragging with a superfluid interferometer. Poster presentation at VCQ & Turis Summer School "Interfacing Gravity and Quantum Physics", Vienna, September 2024

Enhancement of Coherence Times in the Molecular Nanomagnet Cr7Mn. Leroy Apker Award Finalist Oral Presentation, Washington D.C. August 2019.

Spin Echo Measurements with a Customized Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer of an Atomic-clock Transition in the Molecular Nanomagnet Cr7Mn. APS March meeting 2019

Teaching

Quantum Mechanics, Fall 2023 -- graduate student instructor

Advanced Instrumentation Lab, Fall 2019 -- graduate student instructor

Quantum Mechanics I, Spring 2019 -- undergraduate teaching assistant

Electromagnetic Theory I, Fall 2018 -- undergraduate teaching assistant

Signals and Noise Lab, Spring 2018 -- undergraduate teaching assistant

Modern Physics, Fall 2017 -- undergraduate teaching assistant

Awards

American Physical Society Gravity Division Student Travel Award, 2025

 Leroy Apker Award finalist, APS, for excellence in undergraduate physics research, 2019

William Warren Stifler Physics Prize, Amherst College, 2019.

The Lincoln Lowell Russell Music Prize for fostering the singing spirit at Amherst, 2019.

American Physical Society Topical Group on Magnetism Travel Award, 2019.

Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention, 2018.

Bassett Prize in Physics, First Place, Amherst College, 2016. 

Presidential Scholars Medal for High School Seniors, 2015.