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Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. I left the warm weather of Los Angeles to freeze in the winters of Boston, where I earned a degree in physics from Harvard. After graduating in 2000, I promptly returned to California and have happily only seen snow once since. I am presently in graduate school at Stanford, working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). I specialize in advanced accelerator technologies, specifically plasma wake field acceleration. We are trying to build accelerators using new techniques that accelerate particles to ultra-high energies in meters rather than miles. I am in the process of writing my thesis and, fingers crossed, will graduate by Spring 2005.
I was born in 1978 and am the youngest of three siblings. My sister is an attorney and my brother is presently in business school; I am the only scientist in my family. To this day, my brother still refers to the plasma I work with as “goo.” Consequently, I have worked hard to try and explain physics to non-scientists, first as a teaching assistant at Stanford and now as a public tour guide for SLAC.
Outside lab, I split my time between hiking and running in the beautiful hills of Northern California, watching movies and reading. Having discovered the combination of audio books and my iPod, I’m in heaven now that I can hike and “read” at the same time.
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