From 2013 - 2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in 2013 in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research group is focused on the development and characterization of materials for electrochemical energy technologies including batteries, electrochemical capacitors, electrolyzers, and fuel cells. In particular, she is interested in the relationships between material structure and morphology and the resulting redox behavior and electrochemical mechanisms. She also advises the SciBridge project at NC State, which develops renewable energy research collaborations between scientists in Africa and the U.S.