My research will be focused on protein self-assembly with applications in biomedicine and nanotechnology. On a fundamental level, it will involve uncovering mechanisms of self-assembly, as well as elucidating the relationship between peptide sequence and the structure of the resulting assemblies. This information will then be exploited to develop new therapies for assembly-related diseases, as well as fabricate novel nanomaterials.

As a graduate student my primary focus was computational studies of multi-protein systems. As a post-doc, I have utilized fluorescence spectroscopy to study ultra-fast protein folding. My research proposal relies on the convergence of both approaches, experimental and computational, to improve our basic understanding of assembly-related processes, and develop new technologies.