Originally from the St. Louis metropolitan area, Emily developed an interest in STEM while pursuing a physics degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While a college student, Emily spent her summers as an undergraduate research assistant at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
She graduated in 2012 with a B.S. in Engineering Physics and a minor in mathematics, in addition to a dual degree in music. In 2018, she earned a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Northwestern University advised by the late Richard Van Duyne.
Following her research interests in light-driven redox reactions and surface chemistry, she became a postdoctoral associate in the Solar Energy Conversion Group at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) joint with Northwestern University advised by Lin X. Chen and David Tiede.
At Brown, her research group focuses on surface-sensitive spectroscopy of soft plasmonic nanomaterials for the elucidation of photophysical and photochemical reaction dynamics to address challenges in renewable energy and public health.
