I joined Prof. Steve Granick's group at Institute for Basic Science as a postdoc in 2019. 

I am fortunate that my research contributes to solving one of the most important scientific problems at the intersection of chemistry and physics: how molecular transport is modified during chemical reactions. Before I began this work, the field of physics had already discovered many secrets of molecular diffusion, based on both theory and experiment, but had not attempted to describe diffusion during the inherently out-of-equilibrium situation of chemical reactions. The field of chemistry suffered the same limitation, having discovered many secrets of chemical reactivity without attempting to close the circle by integrating this with physics knowledge. As a chemist, working now with physicists, my work is discovering the middle ground uniting these previously-disparate communities.

In addition to optical tweezers, I am trying to design new experimental approaches which will be capable of quantifying the amount of useful work that can be extracted from active matter systems, and seeking theoretical explanations to improve our basic science understanding which may enable new design principles in bio-nanotechnology and the energy field.