Research & Development
Principal Research Scientist - Ecovative Design
Mycelium Material & Mycofabrication R&D ≈ 12 years
As a Research Scientist (2012 – present) I focus on leveraging the native complexity, plasticity, and tenacity of filamentous fungal systems. I have spent over a decade in mycomaterial and mycofabrication research and development, working to understand and extend fungal physicality to a wide range of practical applications, from packaging and particle board to structural composites, food, textiles, and foams. Additionally, I have collaborated extensively with engineerings, biologists, materials scientists, and data scientists to develop functional biofoundry paradigms for mycelium material R&D, including:
Bench-top bioreactor design, validation, and implementation for both composite and pure mycelium material platforms.
Analytical method development and feature extraction.
Design of recursive biofoundry systems for accelerating the learning-to-scale pipeline by leveraging synergistic relationships between novel bioreactor and cultural paradigms, statistical learning, and AI-driven Adaptive Design-of-Experiment methodologies.
Visual Arts
MFA The University at Albany
BFA The University of Iowa
Artist, teacher, and visiting artist/lecturer ≈ 15 years
As an Artist, my training and practice was developed in painting and combined media, with a focus on the interactive potentialities of painting, photographic, and sculptural languages. Since 2012 my practice has explored the cross-disciplinary value of the contemporary artist’s training in the post-medium world as one that leverages exploratory and autodidactic process, with practical application in the field of mycomaterials and mycofabrication.