I am currently a post-doctoral fellow in Prof. Nicholas Kotov's group in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before this, in 2018, I completed my PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I worked in Prof. K. Andre Mkhoyan's and Prof. Michael Tsapatsis' lab to study the atomic structure of 2D-Zeolites using aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, and the subsequent impact on membrane separation performance for a mixture of xylenes.

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My current research interests include self-assembly, chirality transfer across length scales, non-classical growth mechanisms and light-matter interactions. My goal is to visualize, quantify and modify the inter- and intra-molecular interactions to create designer porous and nanocrystal-based self-assembled materials for separations, catalysis, and optoelectronic platforms by a synergistic application of multi-scale characterization, computational and mathematical tools.