Hi, I’m Anna! I am a PhD student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department, coadvised by Daeyeon Lee. I use polymer field theory and molecular dynamics to understand the impacts of confinement and polymer-nanoparticle interactions on the thermodynamics of highly-filled polymer blend nanocomposites. I work closely with experimentalists in the Lee Lab creating composites with the Capillary Rise Infiltration (CaRI) method.
Prior to my PhD I earned a B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT, where I worked in the lab of Daniel Anderson, optimizing nanoparticle platforms for the delivery of mRNA.