Home Institution: Caltech
Research Project: Fundamental Physics with Torsion Balance Experiments
UW Mentor(s): Eric Adelberger and Frank Fleischer

Q: What are your physics/science interests?
A: Very broad. I haven't nailed it down yet, but experiment for sure. Quantum anything is interesting, especially electronics.

Q: What are your other interests?
A: Weightlifting, guitar, and more recently investing.

Q: What would you like to do after college?
A: Graduate school in physics or engineering, unless I manage to get a job offer from an awesome place like SpaceX.

Q: Tell us one strange but interesting fact about yourself.
A: I had the idea of mining asteroids before I knew anyone else did, and even talked with friends about how we would build the company from the ground up and use it as an excuse to make settlements away from Earth. Now Planetary Resources exists and I found out a while ago that the idea has been around for decades.

Q: What first sparked your interest in Physics?
A: When I was in middle school, I went to the library and saw a bright green and orange book (my two favorite colors). It was a pop-physics book called "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe." I read it and immediately went from wanting to be a marine biologist to wanting to be a physicist.

Q: If you could have any pet what would it be?
A: Half wolf half husky. If I could domesticate anything, grolar bear (grizzly polar bear hybrid).

Q: If you had a free month and unlimited funds, how would you spend your time?
A: Go to the ISS.

Q: If you could get a grant to study anything what would it be?
A: This is more engineering than physics, but artificial gravity, most likely by rotating a cylindrical spacecraft.