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Originally from Hamilton Ontario, I graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2002 with a B.Sc. in Honours Physics and a minor in English. Part of my undergraduate career was completed while on exchange at the Università Degli Studi Dell’Aquila, in L’Aquila, Italy. My undergraduate thesis entitled Polarized Spin Injection Into Semiconductor Devices was supervised by Dr. Jeff Young.

As an undergraduate I was fortunate to have a variety of research experiences. In the summer of 1999 I developed beam-line models for a muon decay experiment supervised by Dr. Mike Hasinoff at TRIUMF (Tri-University Meson Facility) in Vancouver, Canada. In 2000 I worked with Dr. Aephraim Steinberg at the laser cooling and quantum optics lab at the University of Toronto. The subsequent summer I helped in the set-up of Dr. Jan Kycia’s low temperature lab at the University of Waterloo.

I joined the DVH group at the beginning of 2003 and am currently studying electronic transport properties of high Tc superconducting nanostructures. The goal of this research, pioneered by Tony Bonetti, is to elucidate the nature of the psuedogap phase in high Tc superconductivity. Studying cuprate superconductors on a mesoscopic length scale enhances the possibility of observing phase fluctuations, stripe ordering as well as domain structure and dynamics.