Biography

Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly daunting global health crisis. As a medical student in Cleveland, Ohio, I frequently helped take care of patients with antibiotic resistant infections, encountering this challenge first-hand. The apparent complexity of this problem compelled me to approach it as a physicist, striving to reduce the complexity of evolution into fundamental mechanisms. I was inspired by the prospect of predicting, and even reversing, antibiotic resistance through rationally designed, evolutionarily-informed therapies. I am ecstatic to have the opportunity to work on a piece of this puzzle during my PhD in Physics at Cambridge. I will join Dr. Diana Fusco's group in examining how evolution acts on short- and long-range cell-to-cell interactions within bacterial biofilms through both simulations and experiments. As an aspiring physician-scientist, I am greatly motivated to carry forward this broad, interdisciplinary approach to further our understanding of microbial evolution and improve clinical strategies for prevention and treatment of antibiotic resistance.

Previous Education

Case Western Reserve University Medicine 2020
Case Western Reserve University Biophysics 2016