I am a goal-oriented and results-driven neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center in New York City (Ph.D. expected June 2024) with strong problem-solving skills.

For my Ph.D. research, I enhance motor function after spinal cord injury by modulating neuronal electrical activity, preventing immune cells from damaging still-viable neurons. I first use stereotaxic surgery to establish CNS injury models and dissect neural circuitry using rodent behavior, biochemical assays, and viral approaches. I received the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Board Pre-Doctoral Fellowship to translate my research from a basic motor system injury model to a pre-clinical spinal cord injury model.

As a neuroscientist with +5 years of training, my clinical and pre-clinical research has culminated in numerous peer-reviewed publications and international presentations in cross-disciplinary fields: biomedical imaging and computational modeling of brain white matter axonal structure, extracellular matrix changes in aging and Alzheimer's Disease, CNS glial biology in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease and stroke. Additionally, I've mentored multiple undergraduate and high school researchers. The New York Academy of Sciences newsletter recognized my mentorship in its January 2023 issue.