Melanie Good is a Teaching Associate Professor  and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her MS in observational astronomy and her PhD in physics education research at the University of Pittsburgh, completing the latter in 2018.  In 2009 she co-founded an exoplanet research group which remains active to this day. She has 14 years of university teaching experience, and has received awards for teaching and course transformation. She has taught a wide array of courses, from introductory-level to advanced and graduate-level courses, for both STEM and non-STEM students. Melanie  serves as the departmental liaison for the College in High School program. She also produced instructional video content for the 13th edition of Wiley's acclaimed introductory physics textbook Fundamentals of Physics by Hallliday, Resnick, and Walker.  In addition, Melanie is active in physics education research, with projects related to attitudes and approaches to problem-solving, psychological threat and engagement among introductory physics students, mindfulness interventions in physics classrooms, and the persistence of pseudoscientific and beliefs.