👋🏻Hi, I’m Molly!
👩🏻🔬 I’m currently a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Science & Engineering
🧪 My research interest is applying machine learning methods to the discovery and development of materials for infrared optoelectronics.
✍🏻 I am passionate about mentorship, science communication, and promoting more people to get into science.
Highlights
Recent Publications
In 2025, I published Growth of InBi on InSb(100) in the MBE Special Collection of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A.
Co-Chaired Sigma Pi Sigma’s 2025 Physics & Astronomy Congress
I served as co-chair for the 2025 Physics & Astronomy Congress. This meeting is the largest known undergraduate focused Physics & Astronomy conference in the world. Over 1300 undergraduate students from across the country attend to explore career paths in physics and astronomy, network with peers and professionals, and present their research. As a part of my role, I oversaw all of the programming and planning of the Congress, with a team of over 100 volunteers.
Sci-Comm
From 2023 - 2025, I worked with the Materials Research Society through the under-represented and minority (UREM) student writing program to write for the MRS Meeting Scene and MRS Bulletin.
Awards
- Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award, American Vacuum Society (2026)
- Student Award Finalist, 68th Electronic Materials Conference (2026)
- Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Student Persistence Scholarship, Penn State (2026)
- Beaver Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant, Penn State Materials Science & Engineering (2026)
- Coppola Graduate Service/Leadership Award, Penn State Materials Science & Engineering (2025)
- Sandia National Laboratory Graduate Summer Fellowship, University Research Association (2025)
- EMS NSF GRFP Poster Competition Winner, Penn State (2023)