(4ee) Engineering Tools for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurological Disorders

My interdisciplinary research experience, which spans physics, chemical engineering and biomedical engineering have given me the diverse skillset needed to lead an interdisciplinary research group. I aspire to lead a research group that tackles complex problems, such as building quantitative tools that can diagnose and treat neurological disorders. I will build on my vast mentoring experience to hire hard-working students and post-docs; I will provide them with the guidance and resources they need to reach their full potential. Given my track record of success in various fields, I am confident we can make invaluable contributions to the field of neurology.

Teaching Statement

I credit much of my success to the invaluable support and mentorship of my advisors, past and present. Their care, patience and teaching skills gave me the resources I needed to be successful while also showing me how to best support the next generation of trainees. During graduate school, I had the pleasure of being a teaching assistant for two semesters. In the past six years, I have mentored a total of 21 combined high school, undergraduate and graduate students on various projects that have resulted in numerous publications. I have learned that students have a wide range of interests and experience, and I have practiced tailoring my mentorship style to best fit the needs of a particular student. This has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my career, and one that I aspire to build on as an assistant professor, both in the lab and in the classroom. My formal training in physics and biomedical engineering, combined with my experience working in a chemical engineering lab, has prepared me to teach chemical engineering courses; these courses include, but are not limited to, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, mass transport, kinetics and bioengineering. I would be very grateful for the opportunity to teach these courses.