Welcome to my Research & Engineering Portfolio. I've worked in a range of academic and industrial settings using techniques from nanofabrication and polymer chemistry, to materials synthesis and mineral spectroscopy.
These days I'm two arms deep in a glove box working on prebiotic chemistry, geochemistry, and astrobio in the Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA JPL!
Invited speaker for ASM International LA Chapter's September Meeting in Marina Del Rey
I got admitted to Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science to pursue my PhD in Materials!
Statistics and research methods
Wet chemistry, glove box work, and sputtering
Nanofabrication (lithography (including soft and e-beam), L-Edit mask design, Ion Beam, MBE, CVD/HDPCVD, plasma etching, etc)
Chemical/Wet Etching (Si/SiN/SiO)
Semiconductor fabrication and processing (DREI/REI, XeF2 Etching, etc)
Surface and particle characterization (AFM & BET)
Optical & fluorescence microscopy (including DLS and Confocal)
Electron Microscopy (SEM and STM)
X-ray characterization (XRD, XRF, W/SAXS)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
Thin film characterization and metrology (goniometry, contact/laser/optical profilometry, and ellipsometer)