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I completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I worked in the Shea group, conducting coarse-grained computer simulations of biomolecules. Specifically, I studied peptide aggregation on solid surfaces and lipid bilayers.
I ran simulations in LAMMPS and NAMD, performed on various supercomputer clusters: the CNSI clusters at UCSB; the TACC clusters at the University of Texas, Austin; and the SDSC clusters at University of California, San Diego. I visualized and analyzed simulation data using VMD, a molecular visualization software package with a Tcl-based scripting language, and performed additional analysis with Matlab.
I completed my master's degree in physics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in the Plotkin and Rottler groups. There, I conducted molecular dynamics simulations of single- and double-stranded DNA, developing a new coarse-grained model where each base was represented as an ellipsoidal particle, which can better characterize the orientation-dependent stacking interaction of a base than a spherical particle can. I did my undergraduate degree in mathematical physics at Queen's University, Canada.