Teaching & Outreach
I've squished bananas through pantyhose to model the digestive system, sent students running across fields to measure velocity and acceleration, built balloon models of molecular geometry, and searched pond water for microorganisms under a microscope.
My classrooms tend to be hands-on. From clay anatomy and dissections to acting out protein folding, I look for ways to make science physical, visible, and memorable.
Wherever my career takes me, teaching will be part of it. Classroom or not, there will always be a teacher in me.
In summer 2026, I taught chemistry for MIT’s Interphase EDGE program, helping incoming first-year students prepare for the pace of college-level science. Along the way, we tackled everything from molecular geometry to thermodynamics—and found scientifically defensible excuses to shoot each other with water guns.
BioBulider Educational Foundation
At BioBuilder, I mentor high school students as they step into the world of synthetic biology research. Students take their ideas through the Design–Build–Test–Learn cycle, getting their hands wet (literally) as they learn to design experiments, troubleshoot when biology refuses to cooperate, and make sense of their results.
MIT Edgerton Center Outreach
Through MIT’s Edgerton Center, I’ve helped run three-day "hackathons" for groups of roughly 120 students in Barcelona and Ferrara, as well as professional development for our outreach teaching team.
Students work in teams to design and build whatever they can dream up—from robotic-arm Roombas and GPS shoes that tell you when to turn, to basketball dribble trackers and video-game-controller chairs.
MIT Edgerton Center Outreach
Through MIT’s Edgerton Center, I’ve helped run three-day "hackathons" for groups of roughly 120 students in Barcelona and Ferrara, as well as professional development for our outreach teaching team.
Students work in teams to design and build whatever they can dream up—from robotic-arm Roombas and GPS shoes that tell you when to turn, to basketball dribble trackers and video-game-controller chairs.