Bio

Education

• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. June 2012.
• M.S., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. June 2007.
• B.S., Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. May 2005.

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor of Physics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ (2020-Present)
• Assistant Professor of Physics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ (2015-2020)
• Associate Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ (2012-2015)

Honors & Awards

• Instructional Design Faculty Fellow, The College of New Jersey (2021-2022)
• Department of Energy Visiting Faculty Fellow (2016)
• AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference Best Paper Award in Electric Propulsion (2009, 2010)
• AIAA Foundation Open Topic Graduate Award (2008)
• Charles D. Babcock Award, California Institute of Technology (2008)
• NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship (2007-2010)
• H.R. and Y.B. Wei Prize for Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University (2004)
• PennACE Student of the Year (2004)
• Eastern Pennsylvania Ninety-Nines’s Aviation Scholarship (2004)
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

Professional Memberships

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics
• Council on Undergraduate Research
• Phi Eta Sigma
• Pi Tau Sigma
• Tau Beta Pi