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Student Profiles
I grew up in Branford, Connecticut and studied Chemistry at Carleton College (a small Liberal Arts school in Northfield, Minnesota). After undergrad and before joining PSE, I worked for a few years in computational chemistry research at Northeastern University.
Most of my childhood was spent in North Carolina, first in Raleigh and later about thirty minutes southwest in a town called Apex. I graduated in 2020 from Williams College with a B.A in both Chemistry and Economics. Professor Chris Goh at Williams introduced me to the world of polymers as I did undergraduate research with him in RAFT polymerization.
I grew up just a few miles from the start of the Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, MA. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s in Materials Science and Engineering.
I am from Tokyo, Japan, and received my B.Eng. from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), majoring in Organic and Polymeric Materials. I chose to study polymers because I was amazed by the infinite potential although most polymers are composed of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. During my undergraduate studies, I worked on di-block copolymer microdomain orientation on thin films with Prof.