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I earned a Chemistry degree from Rutgers University in 2013, where I conducted my first mercury experiments with marine phytoplankton in John Reinfelder’s lab. I then pursued a double Ph.D. at the University of Michigan—one in Environmental Sciences with Joel Blum, on marine mercury stable isotope biogeochemistry, and another in Theoretical Chemistry with Paul Zimmerman, on relativistic quantum chemistry to understand heavy element chemistry. After completing my Ph.D. in 2019, I moved to South Korea to work with Sae Yun Kwon on mercury in zooplankton at POSTECH. I later became a postdoctoral fellow with Jochen Autschbach at SUNY Buffalo, where I worked on relativistic quantum chemistry to explore the chemical bonding of organometallic compounds.