Greater Boston
R&D chemical and process engineer with 10 years of academic and industrial experience in process and materials design for energy and manufacturing applications. Strong track record of delivering innovative solutions to challenging technical problems and working cross-functionally to drive understanding and adoption of these solutions. My academic research has been published in prestigious scientific journals including Nature, ACS Catalysis, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.
Identified key technical and operational risks related to a large capital project implementing new-to-industry process technology. Managed focused groups developing and evaluating solutions for these risks.
• Technical expert in a cross-functional team that developed a roadmap for Cabot to achieve stated corporate sustainability goals. Made recommendations for R&D spend and secured buy-in from business leadership. • Process technology expert for NPD platform project. Designed lab experiments to test key hypotheses and identify scaleup options. Developed process and financial models. • Point of contact for externally funded research projects. Ensured timely completion of project deliverables and alignment with Cabot needs.
Member of a diverse team developing a catalytic membrane reactor for methane pyrolysis into hydrogen and carbon nanofibers. Provided direction for catalyst and reactor design. Led and mentored B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. students in the team, empowering them to submit scientific manuscripts as first authors. Taught experimental techniques to students, oversaw experiments, and evaluated their scientific writing.
Delivered a project funded by Air Liquide by developing improved catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation into methanol.
Graduate student in the labs of Professors Heather Kulik and Yuriy Román-Leshkov. Research results have been published in respected journals including Nature, ACS Central Science, ACS Catalysis, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. • Project 1: New Mechanism and Promoters for Heterogeneous Olefin Metathesis • Project 2: First-Principles Models of Lignin Polymerization • Project 3: New Computational Tools for High-Throughput Screening of Transition Metal Complexes
Led a team to troubleshoot an off-spec filtration process utilizing statistical analysis of historical process data.