Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2012 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2010 B.S., Mechanical Engineering – University of Central Florida, 2006

Biofuels Sustainable Energy Combustion Thermodynamics, Lasers/Optics Physical Chemistry Chemical Kinetics Fluid Dynamics Spectroscopy Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

Influence of Oxygenation in Cyclic Hydrocarbons on Chain-Termination Reactions from R + O2: Tetrahydropyran and Cyclohexane Direct Measurements of Unimolecular and Bimolecular Reaction Kinetics of the Criegee Intermediate (CH3)2COO Hydroxyacetone Production From C3 Criegee Intermediates Products of Criegee Intermediate Reactions with NO2: Experimental Measurements and Tropospheric Implications Pressure-Dependent Competition Among Reaction Pathways from First- and Second-O2 Additions in the Low-Temperature Oxidation of Tetrahydrofuran Direct Observation and Kinetics of a Hydroperoxyalkyl Radical (QOOH) Influence of Temperature and Resonance-Stabilization on the ortho- Effect in Cymene Oxidation Photoionization Mass Spectrometric Measurements of Initial Reaction Pathways in Low-Temperature Oxidation of 2,5-Dimethylhexane Blending Effects on Ignition Delay Times of Methyl Octanoate/n-Nonane/Methylcyclohexane Chemical Kinetics Modeling of n-Nonane Oxidation in Oxygen/Argon using Excited-State Species Time Histories