Hi! I'm Will

I'm a first-year at Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern studying materials science & engineering. I hope to work at the intersection of computational materials and the energy sector.

I'm an undergraduate researcher in the Haile Group (Materials and Devices for Sustainable Energy), wind tunnel engineer for NUSTARS (rocketry society), and mix team member for Concrete Canoe.

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Education

Research

I'm an undergraduate student researcher in Prof. Sossina Haile's energy materials group under Gordon Peiker and Sara Sand. I'm investigating Ba-doped, superprotonic, CsH₂PO₄ electrolytes for fuel cells and implementing methods to accelerate impedance measurement time.

I previously worked with Prof. Robert Topper at Cooper Union where I conducted density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations of HF clusters. I also developed Lennard-Jones parameters of noble gas clusters for TransRot, a molecular simulation software.

In high school I was part of the Stan-X molecular biology program where I developed a novel transgenic insertion of a SX4 P-element in the tapas gene of drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies).

Activities

I'm part of NUSTARS (Northwestern University Space Technology and Rocketry Society). I work as a wind tunnel engineer for NASA's student launch challenge. I developed testing procedures for full-scale rockets at Embry Riddle Wind Tunnel Facility, used CAD to design mounting hardware, and analyzed wind tunnel data with pandas.

I'm also a member of Northwestern's concrete canoe team where we race concrete canoes less dense than water. I help make the mix and with compression testing to develop a lighter stronger mix.