Experience

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and WESEP, Iowa State University, August 2021

• B.A., Physics and Mathematics, St. Olaf College, May 2016

Academic

The University of Notre Dame

• Assitant Professor – Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department (Aug. 2021 – Present)

Iowa State University

• Graduate Research Assistant – Mechanical Engineering Department (Aug. 2016 – Aug. 2021)

NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Visiting Researcher (May – June 2018)

Boise State University

• REU in Materials for Energy and Sustainability (June – July 2015)

St. Olaf College

• Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI) Program (June – July 2014)

Teaching, Mentoring, and Outreach

Iowa State University

• Graduate Mentor – Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Research (Spring 2019 – Present)

  • Project on "Parametric design of aerospace structures" (Fall 2020 – Present)

  • Project on "Parametric modeling, analysis, and optimization of tricuspid heart valves" (Spring 2019 – Present)

• Graduate Mentor – Multiscale Sensing Actuation and Imaging (MoSAIc) REU

  • Project on "Parametric modeling and optimization of prosthetic tricuspid heart valves" (June – July 2019)

• Teaching Assistant – Mechanical Engineering Department (M E 335 – Fluid Flow) (Fall 2018)

St. Olaf College

• Teaching Assistant – Physics Department (PHYS 124/125 – Principles of Physics I/II) (Sept. 2013 – May 2016)

• Mentor – TRiO Educational Talent Search (Sept. 2015 – May 2016)

• Counselor – Engineering & Physics Camp for Girls (July 2013, 2014)

Leadership and Professional Involvement

16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM)

• Co-organizer – “Industrial Applications of IGA” Minisymposium (July 25-29, 2021) with H. Casquero, X. Wei, Y.J. Zhang, M. Sederberg, D. Benson

United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)

• Member-at-Large – USACM Female Researchers Group Committee (Aug. 2020 – Present)

• USACM Student Member (2020 – Present)

Peer Reviewer for Scientific Journals

• Cold Regions Science and Technology (2020¹)

• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering (2020¹)

• International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (2020¹)

• Computational Mechanics (2020¹)

Iowa State University

• Mechanical Engineering Senator – Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) (Aug. 2017 – May 2019)

  • Member – Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference Committee (Aug. 2018 – May 2019)

  • Member – Election and Operation Committee (Aug. 2017 – May 2018)

• Officer – Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Organization (Aug. 2017 – May 2019)

  • Fundraising Chair (Aug. 2018 – May 2019)

  • GPSS Representative (Aug. 2017 – May 2019)