Home Institution: Illinois Institute of Technology
Research Project: Transparent Conductive Oxides
UW Mentor(s): Marjorie Olmstead

Q: What are your physics/science interests?
A: Lately I have been most interested in condensed matter physics. I think the experiments are very elegant.

Q: What are your other interests?
A: I enjoy baking, tennis, running, and reading.

Q: What would you like to do after college?
A: I would like to be a researcher of some sort. The specifics are yet unclear!

Q: Tell us one strange but interesting fact about yourself.
A: I am addicted to reading blogs.

Q: What first sparked your interest in Physics?
A: I was never interested in science until high school. Sometimes I would skip school and spend the day watching science channel documentaries on physics/astrophysics. I realized there was so much out there that I never knew about and could never really understand unless I became a physicist.

Q: If you could have any pet what would it be?
A: I would get a slow loris. Please see the following video for clarification: http://youtu.be/PZ5ACLVjYwM. Or search for "slow loris tickle".

Q: If you had a free month and unlimited funds, how would you spend your time?
A: I would buy everything within sight and worry about the consequences later.

Q: If you could get a grant to study anything what would it be?
A: I would study high temperature superconductors. A superconductor with a very high Tc would have some amazing applications.