About

Senior Scientist: Nanite, 2022 - present

Nanite: [Company Website] [Press Release from Stealth Mode]

• Accelerating polymeric materials synthesis and development at an incubator lab as the company’s first employee

• Leading projects on AI-driven design, automated materials synthesis/biological screening, and in vivo multiplexing

• Contributing results that supported a $10M+ investment rounds of venture financing, as well as partnerships with the CMT (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease) Research Foundation, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• ACS POLY Industrial Advisory Board Chair (2025): launched new initiatives that provides early career polymer science/engineering professionals resources and connections to have meaningful conversations about experiences working in industry and to learn from each other at our initial stage of career and life after graduate school

Senior Polymer Scientist: Materials Informatics Group, 2020 - 2022

3M: [Corporate Materials Research Laboratory]

• Built libraries of experimental formulation, process, and test data with special attention to automating collection of systematic datasets in the Corporate Research Materials Laboratory as part of the Materials Informatics Group

• Served as product owner and scrum leader for a team of 15 researchers for a $1.5M collaboration project with Dr. Juan de Pablo’s Lab at The University of Chicago, comprising polymer simulation, experiments, and machine learning

• Coordinated onboarding efforts to the internal materials informatics platform across strategic project areas in the Corporate Research Laboratories to enable predictive, data driven materials and process development

• Tech Forum Academic Relations Committee Chair (2022): launched new initiatives in organizing the annual 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (3M NTFA) and the 3M RISE (Raising Influence in Science and Engineering) symposium, a diversity-focused event for graduate student and postdoctoral scholars.

Education

NIST-CHiMaD Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020

The University of Chicago: [Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering]

Postdoc research: Dr. Matthew V. Tirrell

Materials Science Division Resident Associate, 2020

Argonne National Laboratory: [Materials Science Division]

 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2016

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities: [CEMS Department]

Thesis: Tunable Polymers as Specialized Excipients for Oral Drug Delivery [link]

Grad research: Dr. Frank S. Bates & Dr. Theresa M. Reineke