After attending Massey University in New Zealand as a Fulbright Scholar from 2002 to 2003, she returned to UC Berkeley to study the shape control and selective growth patterns of multimaterial heterostructures for catalytic and energy applications with Professor Yang, leading to a Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry in 2008. Following a year of postdoctoral research on metal-semiconductor hybrid materials and the fate of nanomaterials in the environment with Dr. Taleb Mokari at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher. Her current research interests include the design of functional inks and development of solution deposition processes for photovoltaic materials.