Experience

Undergraduate Research at Purdue University

I am a member of a physical, atmospheric, and computational chemistry laboratory at Purdue. Under the supervision of a graduate student, my projects involve studying the vibrational frequencies and kinetics of different reactions. Currently, I am exploring hydroxyl radical attacks on the amino acid methionine. In earlier semesters, I have learned a great deal about elementary kinetics of free radical reactions. Since this is a computational chemistry environment, all reactions are theoretical, and I use a software program called Gaussian to run all calculations of interest.