Q: What are your physics/science interests?

Applied physics, plasma physics, magnetic and inertial confinement fusion. 

Q: What are your other interests? 

Hiking, reading, coffee, and amateur rocketry. 

 Q: What would you like to do after college? 

I’m interested in going to graduate school for applied physics.

 Q: Tell us one strange but interesting fact about yourself? 

I’ve gone skydiving but have never been on a roller coaster. 

Q: What first sparked your interest in Physics? 

Very first spark was third grade learning about the solar system. I became very obsessed with astronomy. My second spark was taking a waves and optics class in college. I started reading the Feynman lectures in parallel to my classes and became once again fascinated. 

Q: If you could have any pet, what would it be? 

A ferret and a cat, but they’d have to get along and the ferret preferably isn’t stinky. 

Q: If you had a free month and unlimited funds, how would you spend your time? 

Donate as much as I can without destroying the economy, buy a nice coffee machine, and travel around Europe by train. 

Q: If you could get a grant to study anything, what would it be? 

Novel fusion confinement methods. While it is a bit of a money pit, there's a lot of really interesting and barely or unexplored methods for confining plasma.