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
- Associated Faculty, Tokamak Experimental Science, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ (2025-Present)
- Professor of Physics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ (2025-Present)
- Associate Professor of Physics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ (2020-2025)
- 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