Sc.B., Brown University, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, 2016
Sam hails from just outside the best Portland—Portland, Maine. As an undergraduate at Brown University, he worked under Dr. Indrek Külaots in the R. Hurt Laboratory for Environmental and Health Nanoscience, where he studied factors affecting the explosive thermal exfoliation of graphite oxide. Before joining the Sarazen Research Group, he spent three years working as a process engineer at the Dennis Group, designing and overseeing the construction of new food manufacturing facilities. Outside of engineering, Sam enjoys running, hiking, and rollerblading, but spends most of the time he devotes to those activities wishing he was baking.
Research Project: Stability and kinetics of earth-abundant metal-organic frameworks for aqueous pollutant degradation