Affiliations

I received my B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from the Department of Material Science and Engineering at Iowa State University.

For graduate school I attend The University of California at Berkeley where I received my M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Material Science and Engineering. My dissertation was written under the supervision of Prof. Daryl C. Chrzan. During graduate school I held an appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and my research on defects in semiconductors was partially sponsored by The Department of Energy.

Upon graduation, I joined Prof. James R. Chelikowsky's group at the Institute for Computational Engineering Science at The University of Texas at Austin. In Austin I studied Ge nano-wires and intrinsic point defects in nano-structures. Also I participated in the development of the software package PARSEC. My work with Prof. Chelikowsky was sponsored by The Department of Energy and The National Science Foundation.

After working at UT for two years, I accepted a position working in the Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics group at Rutgers University. At Rutgers I worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. David Vanderbilt and studied perovskite alloys and the effect of dislocation strain fields on ferroelectric crystals. This work was funded in part by The National Science Foundation and The Office of Naval Research.

In the fall of 2008 I started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. In the Spring of 2009 I will be teaching MSE 530, Solid State Science.

In addition to the faculty, staff, students, and funding agencies above, I would like to express my gratitude to the computational centers which have been very generous to me. In particular I would like to recognize The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and the staff at Sysnet.