Born and raised in a small town in Ontario, Canada. I graduated from the University
of Guelph with a B.Sc. in Chemistry. Since I loved Guelph so much, I continued my
graduate studies at the University of Guelph with Prof. Kathryn E. Preuss. Lots of
metal complexes later, I came to the United States as a post-doc with Prof. Ken Raymond
at UC Berkeley. This was followed by a post-doc with Prof. Amar H. Flood and Thermo
FIsher in an industrially funded position at Indiana University Bloomington. During
my time with Amar, I learned the ins and outs of anion binding by working with cyanostar
created by Semin Lee (now a professor at LSU). My current research is focused on the
coordination of lanthanides and probing their magnetic and optical properties as well
as learning more about their non-trivalent oxidation states.
