| Augustana College, 1996-1998. B.A., 2001, Physics, University of
Chicago. M.S., 2005, Physics, Cornell University. Ph.D., 2007, Physics, Cornell University. Assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Augustana College, 2007-present. |
| I am excited to be back at Augustana after eleven years! I began my
career as a physicist at Augie in 1996 but finished my undergraduate studies at University
of Chicago in 2001. While at U of C, I helped perform
research in Antarctica on a cosmic microwave background experiment named TopHat.
In the fall of 2001, I began graduate school at Cornell University
where I switched subfields and have been working on ultrafast optics ever since. My work in Chris Xu's Group
at Cornell focused on leveraging fiber optic technology typically used for telecommunications in order to develop pulsed laser
sources for biomedical imaging and other non-telecom applications.While
at Cornell, I was fortunate to have authored more than twenty
journal publications and conference proceedings as well as
obtained three patents. During my recent first year at Augustana I taught Physics 311, Electricity and Magnetism , Physics 350, Advanced Lab I , Physics 105, Acoustics, and Physics 103, Concepts of Physics and Physics 220, Introduction to Scientific Research. This year I will be adding Physics 308, Electronic Circuits and Physics 316, Optics to my repetoir. I am also in the process of developing an optics lab at Augustana in collaboration with Professor Cecilia Vogel to continue research. To learn more about my work or why anyone might be interested in short laser pulses and optical nonlinearity please visit the Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics Lab at Augustana (UNOLA) webpage. |