PhD student
Louisiana State University
Baton rouge, Louisiana
I am beginning my second year as a PhD student at Louisiana State University in Dr. Maheshi Dassanayake's lab. I am helping to pioneer a Planetary Geobiology Ph.D. program, where I will be studying how plants grow and adapt to extreme environments with high levels of magnesium, like serpentine soils here on Earth and areas on Mars for future manned missions. I am also co-advised by Dr. Suniti Karunatillake of the Planetary Science Lab in the Geology and Geophysics Department here at LSU.