EDUCATION
Institut Pasteur | Paris, France October 2020 – Present
PhD Candidate – Phylodynamics of RABV using Maximum Likelihood methods
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | London, UK Sept 2019 – Sept 2020
MSc. Control of Infectious Diseases – Phylogeography of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the US
Humboldt University | Berlin, Germany Oct 2017 – July 2018
Fulbright Visiting Masters Scholar
Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT | Magna cum laude | GPA: 3.6 Feb 2013 – Feb 2017
BA with High Honors in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry (MBBC) and German
University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA June 2013 – Aug 2013
Summer – Inorganic Chemistry
Relevant Course Work:
Spatial Epidemiology, Epidemiology & Control of Communicable Diseases, Statistical Methods in Epidemiology,
Pathogen Genomics, Data Science (R), Bioinformatics and Genomics (Lab), Computing for the Sciences (Python),
Statistics, Microbiology (Lab), Immunology, Molecular Genetics (Lab)
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Laboratory Infectious disease diagnostics, qRTPCR, PCR, ELISA, CRISPR design, southern blotting
Software Iq-Tree, RAxML, R (Shiny, Leaflet), Python, ArcGIS, STATA
Language Skills English (Native) | German (Fluent) | Krio (Intermediate) | French (Beginner)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
COVID-19, Data Extraction Team | London, UK March 2020 – June 2020
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Member of a 16-person support team, providing structured transmission and clinical data from peerreviewed
and preprint manuscripts for modelling and control departments at LSHTM, WHO, and MSF
• Responsible for ShinyApp development for data visualization and access
Kairos GmbH/ US, Inc. | Berlin, Germany & Cambridge, MA USA Feb. 2018 – June 2019
US Operations Manager & Data Scientist
• Restructured data analytics and built reporting tools for easy clinical data visualization using R and SQL
• Led the business development, sales, and project management for the US entity
Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier Working Group | Berlin, Germany Sept. 2017 – July 2018
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Fulbright Scholar
• Planned a novel technique using CRISPR/ Cas9 and fluorescence to remove the replication machinery in the
bacterial cell to create the “Eternal Cell”.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | Bo, Sierra Leone March 2017 – Aug. 2017
Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Contracted Research Consultant
• Established and supervised advanced viral and malarial diagnostic assays at the Sierra Leonean Mercy
Hospital Research Laboratory. This included teaching and managing the technicians at the laboratory.
• Tested a novel tool designed by the Dinglasan group to detect malarial peptides in saliva.
Dr. Grace Spatafora Research Group| Middlebury, VT Jan. 2016 – Feb. 2017
Middlebury College, Research Assistant, Bachelor thesis
• Investigated the proteolytic regulation of SloR by the ClpXP protease during episodes of environmental
stress in gram-positive Streptococcus mutans.
Dr. Claudia Koch-Brandt Research Group | Mainz, Germany Jan. 2015 – Aug. 2015
Johannes Gutenberg University, Full-Time Research Assistant
• Investigated the role of molecular chaperone, Clusterin, in the “Unfolded Protein Response Pathway”,
which involved molecular cloning, cell transfections, Western Blots, and eukaryotic cell culture.