Current Employment
I am currently a research assistant at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy program, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC focusing on delivering research and solutions that help metropolitan leaders build an advanced economy that works for all.
I have been employed at Brookings Metro since June 2020: as a research intern June-November 2020 and as a research assistant since December 2020. In both capacities, I have performed GIS analyses of demographic, employment, economic, and public ammenities data for studies of US metro areas. I am also the first author for two publications posted on the Brookings website, on the retail real estate market and on urban sprawl in American metro areas.
Past Employment
My work at the Brookings Institution is my first formal employment since switching careers from physical chemistry to urban geography. However, since 2017, I have written on public transportation and urban geography issues as a fellow at the D.C. Policy Center, a local metropolitan issues think tank focusing on the Washington, DC area. In addition, I have done some freelance GIS analysis work.
My previous employment history is as a college chemistry instructor and as a graduate research assistant in a physical chemistry lab, as listed below:
- Visiting Lecturer in Physical and Analytical Chemistry
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2016-2019)
- Taught general chemistry lab and general chemistry lecture with flipped-classroom techniques.
- Taught analytic chemistry lab and lecture for juniors, focusing heavily on error analysis and wetlab technique, and instrumental analysis lab for seniors.
- Taught a two-semester physical chemistry lab course with lecture component for juniors. I focused on instrumentation techniques, MATLAB programming, and formal report-writing.
- Helped organize and mentored students in the SCIART undergrad summer research program.
- Adjunct Professor of Physical Science
- Anne Arundel Community College (2015-2016)
- Taught remedial physics, covering algebra and trigonometry, and Newtonian mechanics.
- Lab instructor for introductory physical science and lecture instructor for general chemistry.
- Graduate Research Assistant in Physical Chemistry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010-2015)
- Repaired and operated an ultra-high vacuum molecular beam set-up.
- Repaired and maintained electronics and power supplies.
- Rebuilt an Auger electron spectrometer and repaired its control electronics.
- Designed and programmed a classical dynamics simulation in Python.