I am currently a fourth year PhD student in the Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
I am a member of Professor Bern Kohler's research group in the Department of Chemistry, which focuses on the ultrafast photophysics and photochemistry of DNA and other compounds. My current research is focused on applying our current understanding of photophysics and excited state dynamics of DNA in order to understand factors affecting the rate of DNA photodamage - particularly that of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers - which in turn lead to detrimental effects such as skin cancer lesions and skin aging. In this work, we apply a range of different methods - both computational and experimental - in order to study systems of biological importance and other model systems, from which we can obtain inferences about why and how DNA damage is mediated on the molecular level from both structural and electronic perspectives.
My computational research has been featured by the Ohio Supercomputer Centre.
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