Research Scientist, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2016-
Environmental bioinorganic chemistry and geobiology Biological manganese oxidation Psychrophilic metalloprotein structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics Microbial hydrocarbon degradation and methanogenesis Optical and magnetic spectroscopies Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, 2007-2016 Environmental bioinorganic chemistry and geobiology Psychrophilic metalloprotein structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics Microbial hydrocarbon degradation and methanogenesis Optical and magnetic spectroscopies Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2003-07 Research with Harry B. Gray Electron transfer and protein dynamics in cytochrome c Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2002 Graduate Research with Hilary Arnold Godwin Coordination chemistry, thermodynamics, and kinetics of metal binding to zinc-binding peptides Molecular mechanisms of lead poisoning M.S. in Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1999 A.B. with Honors in Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1998 Undergraduate Research with Dean E. Wilcox Spectroscopic characterization of the interactions of nitric oxide with cobalamins |