Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University                                                    01/2018-05/2021                                                

12-725:  Fate, Transport, and Physicochemical Processes of Organic Contaminants in Aquatic Systems.                                 

Roles: Gave lectures, designed exam and homework questions, graded homework and exams, prepared homework solutions, operated office hours     

Lectures Given:                          

 ‘Mass Transfer, Diffusion’                                                                                             03/2020 

‘Organic chemistry principles’                                                                              02/2021 

‘Environmental systems’                                                                                                03/2021

Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University                                                   09/2021 – 12/2021                         

12-720:  Water Resource Chemistry.                                                                

Roles: Prepared homework solutions, operated office hours, graded homework     

Mentoring

Carnegie Mellon University                                         Graduate students (5):

Hosea Santiago (Ph.D. student, CMU)               Research Topic: Enzyme mediated PFAS biodegradation

Ben Therrien (Ph.D. student, CMU)               Research Topic: Nanoparticle phloem loading pathway

Valeria Nava (Ph.D. student, CMU)                       Research Topic: Plant leaf cross section imaging

Emma Clement (M.S., CMU)                         Research Topic: Adjusting nanoparticle hydrophobicity

Jialin Dong (M.S., CMU)                                       Research Topic: Mercury removal from liquid hydrocarbon