Born in England and raised in Australia, I completed my undergrad and masters in physics at the University of Western Australia before moving to Germany to complete my PhD in plasma physics. I then completed a teaching diploma back in Australia and taught high school science for four years. I have been at UCCS since Spring 2013.

With a background in both science and teaching, I enjoy bringing all of my experience to educating our mechanical engineering students and working with other faculty, in particular new faculty, to develop their teaching skills.

• MAE Undergraduate
  • MAE2055 MechEtronics
  • MAE2200 Materials Engineering
  • MAE3005 Measurements
  • MAE3401 Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems
  • MAE4150 Vibrations
  • MAE4421 Controls
  • MAE4510 Senior Design
• MAE Graduate
  • MAE5011 Engineering Analysis 1
• PES Undergraduate
  • PES1110 Physics 1
• MATH Undergraduate (Colorado College)
  • MA126 Calculus 1
  • MA117 Probability and Statistics

Since joining MAE, I have been assisting new faculty develop their teaching skills. Through programs run by the Faculty Resource Center, I have also been able to reach faculty across the campus. Beginning Fall 2019, this work has become more formalized through the Teaching Fellows Program.

• FRC Teaching Fellow
  • Assist faculty to plan a course
  • Assist faculty to plan and write assessments
  • Lesson observations of faculty to determine strengths and areas of improvement
• FRC workshops
  • Encouraging Student Engagement in Large Classes, Apr 2020
  • Managing Disruptive Students, Mar 2020
  • UCCS Teaching and Learning Conference, Jan 2020
  • Active Learning Essentials workshop, Nov 2019
  • Creating Outcome Driven Assessments in the Applied Sciences, Oct 2019
  • New Faculty Teaching Kickoff Day, Aug 2019

• Grad. Dip. Edu.
  University of Western Australia, 2007
• PhD, Mathematical Physics
  Universität Rostock, 2007
• BSc (Hons), Physics
  University of Western Australia, 2005

• Instructor, MAE
  UCCS, Fall 2013-present
• Instructor, Physics
  UCCS, Spring 2013
• Instructor, Math
  Colorado College, Summers 2013-2015
• Teacher, Science
  St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls, Australia, 2008-2011

• Expert witness
  4th Judicial District Attorney, 2014

• Application of linear response theory to magnetotransport properties of dense plasmas, Phys. Rev. E 81, 036409 (2010).
• Electrical conductivity of noble gases at high pressures, Phys. Rev. E 76, 036405 (2007).
• Coulomb contribution to the direct current electrical conductivity of dense partially ionized plasmas, Phys. Plasmas 14, 062303 (2007).
• Linear response treatment of the Hall effect, in Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 21, Ed. by H Akai, A Hosaka, H Toki and FB Malik (Nova Science, Hauppauge NY, 2007).
• ISBN 1-60021-501-7.
• The Hall effect in dense noble gas plasmas, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 47, 331--334 (2007).
• Linear response treatment of the Hall effect within the Zubarev formalism, J. Phys. A 39, 4723--4726 (2006).
• Dynamic structure factor of dusty and low-dimensional plasmas, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 45, 441--449 (2005).