About Me

I was born and raised in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and attended undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (and can often be found raving about both).  I love to travel and have jumped at opportunities to temporarily live overseas, including studying abroad in Budapest, Hungary and interning in Reykjavik, Iceland.  My favorite week of the year is spent with my extended family on the lake in northern Minnesota over the 4th of July.

Like a true Minnesotan, I grew up doing nearly every activity that involved a lake or snow.  I have always been surrounded by athletics and am an avid Wisconsin Badger and Minnesota sports fan.  I enjoy doing CrossFit, hiking, running, and playing any teams sports I can in my free time (currently a lot of basketball and volleyball).  When I’m not up to my elbows in prototyping or mechatronics in the lab, I occasionally like to get my hands dirty in some amateur artistic pursuits – drawing, ceramics, web design, and amateur videography and editing.