2020 – Present | Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Ryerson University |
2018 – 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego Working with Elena Koslover to investigate the effect of spatial confinement within complex organelle morphologies on intracellular reaction kinetics. |
2015 – 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University Worked with David Sivak to probe the limits and optimization of energy use by molecular machines. |
2012 – 2015 | PhD student in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University Worked with Andrew Rutenberg to explore protein accumulation and clustering involved in intracellular signaling. |
2010 – 2012 | MSc student in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University Worked with Andrew Rutenberg to metabolically explain differentiation patterns in filamentous bacteria. |
2006 – 2010 | BSc student in the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph Thesis with Elisabeth Nicol to explore the optimal conductivity of graphene. Summer research with Rob Wickham and John Dutcher investigating the mechanical response of bacterial cell walls. Summer research with Stefan Kycia examining gold nanoparticle structure. |