Prior to joining CU Boulder, she received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from Pennsylvania State University in 2011 and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. Her research focuses on establishing structure-processing-property relationships in nanostructured materials, thermoelectric energy conversion, application of statistical learning methods to predict heat and charge transport in nanostructures, phonon engineering, and probing spin-phonon interaction in quantum systems.