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Download full CV by clicking on the icon to the right. Last updated July 2026.
Education
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2025 PhD Earth Sciences
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego -
2021 MS Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego -
2020 BS Environment & Sustainability with Distinction in Research
Cornell University
Research experience
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2025 - Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Climate Systems Engineering initiative, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Mentor: Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh
- Constraining the Effects of Climate Engineering on Weather Extremes using Artificial Intelligence Emulators
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2020 - 2025 Graduate Student Researcher
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA - Advisor: Dr. Katharine Ricke
- Committee: Drs. Jennifer Burney, Simone Tilmes, Lynn Russell, Duncan Watson-Parris, Shang-Ping Xie
- Modeling the far-reaching climate responses of regional geoengineering proposals
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2017 - 2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Advisors: Dr. Douglas Hamilton and Dr. Natalie Mahowald
- Improving Earth System Model representations of fire and dust aerosols for estimating climate
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2018 Ecosystem Modeling Intern
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME - Advisor: Dr. Katherine Mills
- Investigating the ecological impacts for diadromous fish populations to rising temperature
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2017 Undergraduate Student Researcher
Department of Geology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA - Advisor: Dr. Ann Blythe
- Analyzing apatite fission-tracks for low-temperature thermochronology applications
Awards & Fellowships
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2026 - Climate Systems Engineering initiative Faculty Research Grant (Co-PI)
- NSF NCAR Derecho HPC University Large Allocation (Co-PI)
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
- 2025 Outstanding Reviewer for AGU Earth's Future
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2025 - UChicago Climate Systems Engineering initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions, AMS 105th Annual Meeting Honorable Mention for Best Student Oral Presentation
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2024 - NDSEG 5th Annual Conference Honorable Mention for Presentation in Oceanography
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2023 - Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Fellowship
- Scripps Student Symposium Outstanding Presenter Award
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2022 - National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
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2020 - Scripps Fellowship
Service
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Peer review
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Communications Earth & Environment, Earth’s Future, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Communications
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Conference & workshop organization
- Organizer for UChicago CSEi Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Research Symposium (January 2026)
- Co-organizer for Solar Geoengineering Scenarios Development Workshop in India in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG) (December 2024)
- Early career convener for AGU Fall Meeting, GC100. Solar Radiation Modification for Climate Intervention (December 2023)
- Co-organizer for Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Geoengineering Workshop (March 2023)
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Committee memberships & outreach
- Mentor and leadership for SIO Applicant Support and Knowledge-base program
- Mentor and leadership for Climate Science Curricular Group Peer Mentor Program
- Committee member for joint SIO/HDSI faculty hire
- Student host for SIO Open House
- Assistant coach for UC San Diego women’s club ultimate frisbee team