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nina.about()

PhD student at MIT tinkering with different ideas at the interface of AI, simulation, chemistry, materials science, and biology

B.S. in chemistry from the University of Delaware

nina.experience()
  • now
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023

PhD student

MIT DMSE · fall 2025 – present

  • advised by Dr. Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli
  • working on coarse-grained force-field development for quantum bio systems

PhD student

MIT DMSE · fall 2025 – present

  • advised by Dr. Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli
  • working on coarse-grained force-field development for quantum bio systems

undergraduate research student

UD chemical engineering · fall 2023 – spring 2025

  • advised by Dr. Arthi Jayaraman
  • senior thesis on understanding the effect of peptide sequence on the drug interactions with elastin-like peptides
Senior thesis figure: doxorubicin interacting with an elastin-like peptide sequence

science undergraduate research internship (SULI)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory · june 2024 – august 2024

  • advised by Dr. Mai-Anh Ha
  • used DFT calculations to show that the ionomer Nafion competes with oxygen evolution reaction intermediates on mixed-metal oxide catalysts in anion exchange membrane electrolyzers

undergraduate research student

UD chemical engineering · fall 2023 – spring 2025

  • advised by Dr. Arthi Jayaraman
  • used atomisitic molecular dynamics simulations to understand the effect of peptide sequence on the drug interactions with elastin-like peptides

NSF REU intern

UMD materials science · june 2023 – august 2023

  • used MLIPs to calculate diffusivity and ionic conductivity in super-ionic conductors

undergraduate research student

UD chemical engineering · fall 2023 – spring 2025

  • advised by Dr. Arthi Jayaraman
  • used coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to understand the self-assembly of elastin- and collagen-like peptides as a function of their chain length

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