I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California Irvine in July, 2025. My research group will focus on the intersection of air quality, climate change, and human systems.

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford where I research the fundamentals, impacts, and mitigation of climate change and air pollution. I work in the Climate-Energy Lab with Ken Caldeira. I obtained my PhD in Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an educational background in atmospheric chemistry, climate physics, and environmental policy.

I research the intersection of social and earth systems, at local and global scales, bringing together atmospheric chemistry, climate physics, energy systems, and human impacts. I am passionate about policy-oriented work, community-based science, and applications of systems modeling to ensure a just transition, while also working to improve our understanding of the fundamentals of earth science. I am excited by just how much the applied and fundamental earth sciences can be used together!

Previously, I worked at the Rock Energy and Environment institute in Beijing, China where I studied the inequities of the energy transition in coal regions in Northeastern China, and collaborated with the Indian government on shared goals between China and India for pollution management. I also worked with Green Camel Bell in Lanzhou, China on community science projects to remediate desertification. Following this, I worked at the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum in Washington, D.C., where I did research on U.S.-Chinese collaboration on environmental policy, and helped spearhead a community science collaboration between the two countries. I graduated with a B.Sc. in Science, Technology and International Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

I love living in coastal California where I spend my free time hiking and running trails with my partner, exploring the beaches and parks of this awesome state, rowing local waterways, and throwing nature-inspired pottery.