As a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Planetary Geosciences Institute, I am working with Prof. Larry Taylor on several topics including meteorites, mineral inclusions in diamond, morphology of lunar soil/dust, synthesis of special lunar soil simulants with nanophase iron, and space weathering. Before coming to UT, I worked on plutonic-sized silicic eruptions with Prof. Alfred Anderson at the Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago as a postdoctoral fellow for two years. I earned my Ph.D. with Prof. Youxue Zhang, at the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan. My dissertation topic was "Water in rhyolitic and dacitic melts".

I have conducted research in volcanology, igneous petrology, experimental petrology, material and planetary sciences, using field-based analytical and experimental methods as well as numerical modeling.

Specifically, I am interested in the crustal and mantle processes on Earth and other planetary bodies through the study of large silicic magma bodies, mineral inclusions in diamond, volcanic degassing, meteorites from other planetary bodies, and surface changes due to space weathering.