Here is the pdf version of my resume.
I am currently working in the Joint Program for the Science and Policy of Global Climate Change at MIT, planning to get my PhD eventually. My projects include work with the uncertainty in increased uptake in plants, working with Prof. Webster at UNC to make a reduced form model including uncertainty in various parameters, and working on designing policies to take advantage of complementarities between reductions of urban pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions.
I spent a year at the University of Utah figuring out what I wanted to do with my life, and exploring computational chemistry, high school teaching, computer programming, environmental policy, and economics. I did research with Prof. Truong on modeling the effects of solvents on small fluorescent molecules (namely NBD, the fluorophore I had used experimentally at Caltech).
I was once a chemistry graduate student at Caltech working in the Dougherty labs on incorporating unnatural fluorescent amino acids into membrane proteins in order to study their conformations. If you look at the Dougherty group homepage, my work would be under the Physical Organic Chemistry on the Brain link. I finished my Masters thesis in 1999 when I decided that I didn't want to do lab work anymore.
I got my undergraduate degree from MIT, where I worked in the laboratories of Prof. Greg Fu on borabenzene chemistry, under the direction of Diego Hoic , a graduate student at MIT. I also did some work in Prof. Toyo Tanaka's laboratory on his swelling gel polymers under the direction of Anthony English.
A list of classes would not be very informational, so I won't include that here. (Though I would like to mention a very interesting protein folding course I'm currently taking at Caltech, since it has a useful homepage).
Before reaching MIT, I did one project of note which was a white paper on sewage processing for the company MODEC.
I would like to thank Pfizer, NSF, NIH, the MIT UROP program, and MODEC for funding my various different research projects.
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