Biography

At Wake Forest University, where I completed my BS in Physics, the words "Pro Humanitate" or "For Humanity" are present on every school crest and throughout the campus. It was at Wake Forest that I developed my passion for using physics not only as a way to further an understanding of our universe, but also as a means of giving back to the community and our world as a whole. There, I not only worked to develop low cost organic transistors, but helped to create a Women in STEM program at the University and at a local secondary school. At Cambridge, I will continue my work in physics, discovering and modelling materials for energy storage devices in an attempt to create higher capacity, longer lasting batteries. By searching for novel materials from first principles, I hope to reduce experimental resources by computing the most favorable materials and thus limiting the number of experiments necessary. This work will address the urgent need for higher capacity energy storage to fully utilize sources of carbon-free energy such as wind and solar power, and reduce our global reliance on fossil fuels.

Previous Education

Wake Forest University
University of Cambridge