Katherine grew up in Bethesda, MD, where between playing softball and tennis and watching Twister she discovered her love for Chemistry from her high school teacher Dr. Ranen, aka the "Rain King" (he happens to be an avid Counting Crows fan). She then headed to North Carolina (soon to be followed by the rest of her family) for undergraduate studies at Wake Forest University where she completed an honors thesis on iron metabolism and gallium as a potential antimicrobial agent under Dr. Patricia Dos Santos. After four years in the Triad and a longing for actually competitive ACC sports, Katherine moved further east to UNC Chapel Hill to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry. In the Waters Lab, she studied cation-π and methionine interactions in reader proteins that recognize trimethyllysine and engineering them to be high affinity "super binders" as tools in epigenetics research. Outside of the lab, Katherine acted as the outreach coordinator for Future Chemistry Faculty at PUIs (FCFP), and otherwise spends most of her time obsessing over Baltimore sports and UNC basketball, listening to the Counting Crows (may the connection btw chemistry and the band be forever intertwined) and Maggie Rogers on repeat, drinking PBR, and biking and running around Chapel Hill in search of some cute cows.

Katherine is currently persuing a post-doc at the University of Bristol with Dek Woolfson's Group.