ABOUT ME
I have over ten years experience specifically in the field of hyperpolarized Xenon gas NMR and MRI. My experience spans from design and engineering prototype instruments, computer modeling of expected yields, and designing applications experiments with the polarized gas.
​
I also have experience teaching both as a Teaching Assistant in Physics, but also abroad as a high school English teacher in Japan. I love to share what I know about the universe. Although, my current profession doesn't emphasize it, I try to find ways both in the office and in my personal life to be an educator.
​
More recently, I have studied misclassification (false positivies and false negatives) of binary data in statistics. I have designed a computer simulations to look at the impact of misclassification in explosive sensitivity testing.
​
I consider my core skills to be instrumentation, software simulations, statistics, and education. My primary interests are scientific instrument design and manufacturing, and finite element model design.
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC PREPARATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Finite Element Model Design
Creating code to model various processes and phenomena to optimize yield/efficiency. I'm currently working on a complete description of the Xenon polarization process and beginning work on a description of small-scale NMR coils.
2006- 2009
University of Utah
Received Doctorate in Physics for the study and refinement of the Xenon hyperpolarization process and application of the process to the characterization of protein research.
Scientific Instrument Design and Manufacturing
I have built an array of scientific instruments, most notably, a Xenon polarizer. I've also built small scale spectrometers, NMR probes, novel gas-dissolution devices for high-temperature NMR, and various other mechanical and electrical devices.
2003-2006
University of Utah
Received Masters in Physics for the development of a low-cost, high-yield Xenon polarizer.
2009-2010
PNNL
Post-Doctoral Research Associate working on material characterization using hyperpolarized Xenon NMR.
2015-2017
Duke University Medical Center
Post-Doctoral Associate in Research working on hyperpolarized Xenon production for use with medical MRI.