Research Experience

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 2017-
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, 2015-
Scientist, Earth and Planetary Science Laboratory, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL, 2011-2015
Assistant in Research, Mineral Physics Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, 2006-2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Rock Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-2005
Undergraduate Researcher, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002-2003

Teaching

The Dynamic Earth (GLG 201), MSU, Spring semesters 2020-present
Mineral and Rock Physics (GLG 864), MSU, alternate Spring semesters 2018-present
Mineralogy and Geochemistry (GLG 321), MSU, Fall semesters 2015-present
Analysis IV for Physicists (MATH 206), EPFL, Spring 2012
Earth Materials (GEO 372), Princeton University, Fall 2010
A Guided Tour of the Solar System (GEO 207), Princeton University, Fall 2008, 2007
MIT China Educational Technology Initiative, Summer 2006
Accelerated Calculus I-II (18.01A, 18.02A), MIT, Fall 2005, 2002
Physics I with Sports (8.01S), MIT, Fall 2003

Education

Ph.D., Geosciences, Princeton University, 2006-2011
SB, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-2005