Work Experience
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2022 - Present
Place: University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Department of Physics, College of Nature Sciences and Mathematics
Position: Assistant Professor
Responsibility:
2017 - 2022
Place: University of Vienna
Department of Physics?
Position: Research Associate
Responsibility:
2014 - 2017
Place: Wayne State Collage
Department of Physics?
Position: Assistant Professor
Responsibility:
2012 - 2014
Place: Georgetown University
Physics Education Research?
Position: Post-doctoral researcher
Responsibility:
2008 - 2012
Place: University of Maryland College Park
Physics Education Research
Position: Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant
Responsibility:
(RA)
• Conducted hour-long one-on-one interviews with undergraduate engineering students. Asked about their current physics classes and observed as they solved a few physics problems.
• Analyzed videos taken from interviews and discussion sessions of reformed physics classes to identify how and when students make sense of math that appears in the context of physics.
• Analyzed videos taken from discussion sessions of traditional upper-level engineering courses to observe if students who had previously taken the reformed physics courses had a greater tendency to make sense of the mathematics, indicating the effectiveness of the reformed physics curriculum.
• Attend weekly meetings where researchers show video data from interviews and science classrooms. Provide data interpretation and suggestions to peers.
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(TA)
Taught Introductory Mechanics (for engineering
majors) and Electrodynamics and Light (for engineering majors). Taught Introductory Mechanics (for biology majors) that used Open Source Tutorials four semesters. Will teach Inquiry into Physics (for future primary school teachers), where students theorize and experiment to construct and refine ideas about physics, fall 2012.
2011
Mar - July
Place: Tokyo Gakugei University
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Position: TA Training Facilitator
Responsibility: Explained nuances of the reformed physics curriculum developed by the Physics Education Research Group at UMD and led TA’s in discussing how they would carry out that week’s lesson.
2007 - 2008
Place: AEON*Amity Okazaki, Japan
Position: English Conversation Teacher
Responsibility: Taught mostly elementary school and junior high school students, but also taught babies and adults. Taught beginning and bilingual students.
2006 - 2007
Place: Army Corps of Engineers ERDC-CERL Lab - PI Dr. Charles Marsh
Position: Research Assistant
Responsibility:
• Researched and ran experiments on solubility and conductivity enhancement of nanoparticles and nanotubes.
• Designed theoretical designs for a ferroelectric–source wake-field accelerator and initiated evaluations of device with theory learned in plasma physics and
electromagnetism courses.
2005
May - Aug
Place: Argonne National Laboratory
Position: Research Assistant supervised by Dr. Nachappa Gopalsami
Responsibility:
• Researched and developed methods of using millimeter wavelength RADAR for the detection of trace radioactive substances.
• Designed and constructed an air tight chamber, created supersaturation humidities, and analyzed experimental results.
2004 - 2005
Place: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Position: Research Assistant in reactor physics group, supervised by Dr. Barclay Jones
Responsibility:
• Tested Fortran code to determine its accuracy in predicting reactor boron coolant crud buildup and subsequent impact.
• Delegated tasks and led two less-experienced students in the second semester.
