Professional Preparation:

Ph.D. Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2015 M.S. Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2012 B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, 2010

Appointments:

2017-present Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky 2015-2017: Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany 2013-2014: Visiting Chateaubriand Fellow, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles Paris, France 2010-2014: Graduate Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts

Adhesion; biological materials; elastocapillary deformation; evaporative assembly; hierarchical and mesoscale structures; hybrid-polymer materials; shape-changing structures; soft, bioinspired materials and interfaces;