About Me
I am an experimentalist at the University of Michigan focusing on high-power Hall thruster performance in the Aerospace Engineering department. Beyond my research work, I am strongly involved in diversity and outreach efforts. Outside of the lab I enjoy embroidery, swimming, and taking cursed pictures of my cat Pudge.
Research Highlights
"We named our thruster the H9 MUSCLE because essentially, we took the H9 thruster and made a muscle car out of it by turning it up to 11—really up to a hundred, if we’re going by accurate scaling."
-Me
Education
University of Michigan: Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2018-2021
Rackham Graduate School Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate Recipient, 2022
Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering Fellow, 2020
Expected Graduation Summer 2023
University of Washington: Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Minor in Diversity
Graduated June 2018
Experience
Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory
August 2018 - Present
Jet Propulsion Laboratories: Electric Propulsion Group Intern
July 2022 - September 2022
Caltech Space Challenge 2022: Titan Sample Return Mission
Member of Team Voyager (winning team), March 2022
Fusion Z-Pinch Experiment: Undergraduate Research Assistant
April 2015 - June 2018
Aerojet Rocketdyne: Electric Propulsion Project Engineering Intern
June 2017 - September 2017
Eagle Harbor Technologies: Plasma Research Intern
June 2016 - September 2016
