Research

As an undergraduate at NYU I was inspired by natural landscapes and landforms with strange shapes. I conducted research at the AML investigating the shape evolution of erodible materials to help explain how landscapes and icebergs evolve as they dissolve/melt culminating in:

• Article in PNAS on dissolving landscapes (‘Ultra-sharp pinnacles sculpted by natural convective dissolution’)

• Article in PRL on melting ice (‘Anomalous Convective Flows Carve Pinnacles and Scallops in Melting Ice’)

• I wrote an honors thesis too ('Geomorphology in the Lab: Carving Sharp Pinnacles by Dissolution and Melting')

Advisers: Prof. Leif Ristroph, Prof. Alexandra Zidovska, Prof. Jun Zhang

You can see videos of my candy recreations of karst landscapes ( stone forests ) in ‘Scientific American’, ‘Ars Technica’, and ‘WIRED’.

My ice pictures made it to the cover of PRL, and you can also find articles about our melting ice research in ‘Popular Science’ and ‘Ars Technica’.