Coloring Book Communicator
鈥淚 come from a family where art and science is split right down the middle. My mother and brother are musicians and my father is a chemical engineer.鈥�
鈥淎nd I was always a doodler, scribbling pictures on top of homework assignments as a way of helping me connect the dots.鈥�
鈥淓ventually, I followed in my father鈥檚 footsteps and pursued a career in chemical engineering, but I always believed that science can be creative.鈥�
鈥淭hat led me to develop a line of coloring books, called ColorMePhD, to help future scientists understand complex scientific concepts.鈥�
鈥淭oday, my focus is on heterogeneous catalysis, and plastic upcycling 鈥� taking plastic waste and breaking it down through chemical catalysis.鈥�
鈥淚nstead of throwing our plastic away into landfills, we can convert it, and create really cool things.鈥�
鈥淎fter earning my PhD from UC Berkeley and doing post-doctoral work at MIT, I am now leading my own lab as an assistant professor at the University of Washington.鈥�
鈥淎nd doodling my way to future findings.鈥�
