about

I use lab-based experiments to study how particles move in turbulent flows.

My postdoc research in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics group at the University of Washington focuses on the vertical mixing and orientation of microplastics in wind-driven waves and turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer. I received my PhD in Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics from the University of Minnesota, where I explored fluid-particle interactions in turbulence.

In my free time I enjoy dancing and creative writing.

research

Fluid-particle interactions in turbulence

Microplastic particles at the ocean surface

American Physical Society (2023)

Plastic particles in the SAFL Outdoor StreamLab

Water Resources Research (2023)

Particle-wall interactions

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2020)

Inertial disk and rod particles in a turbulent boundary layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2022)

Dense suspensions of large particles in a turbulent boundary layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2019)

Coherent clusters of particles homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2017)
Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2019)

Code repositories

Particle shadow tracking software

Experiments in Fluids (2023)