About me
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Okay, so for those of you who may think you know me but want some more
info, here goes:
I was born in New Jersey and moved to a suburb of Chicago when I was about
7. I finished elementary school and junior high school there, and
started high school at Naperville Central mid-metamorphosis from
the Redskins to the Redhawks. I moved my sophomore year to Edmond,
Oklahoma, and finished out high school at North, with small stints at
Memorial and UCO. I spent those summers at camps at Oklahoma City
Community College, University of Tulsa and Southeastern Oklahoma State
University.
I went to college at Rice University, where I majored in chemical
engineering (with an environmental science and engineering option) and
anthropology. During those summers, I worked at Cornell, Northwestern and
Stanford Universities.
After college, I headed to New South Wales on a Rotary Foundation
Ambassadorial Scholarship. I then got my Masters of Engineering
(Research) at the University of Sydney in the field of particle
technology and, more specifically, sugar cane technology. I also met my
husband there...a South African named Ashley Breed. If you googled him
and got to my page, e-mail me and I'll forward it to him. Likewise if you're
looking for Jackie Pilaski, Al Pilaski or Lisa Pilaski.
After Sydney I came back to the US, this time to California. I started my
PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara, also in chemical
engineering. I was there for three years and then moved to Manhattan,
because my advisor took a position in the Department of Physics at New
York University.
After a six-month stint living in the Village, I moved to Paris, where I
lived in an 8th floor walkup in the 14th arrondissement and worked at the
ESPCI in the Latin Quarter. Once my legs were sufficiently toned from all
the stairs, I headed back to NoHo and settled back at the Center for Soft
Matter Research.
That brings me to the here and now...
As for the future, I've given up trying to plan it. I do, however, hope to
graduate sometime before I get an AARP card in the mail. So if you want
to give me a job, I have no geographical preference and am really
smart...or so my mother tells me. Click here to
check out my CV. You can also get two, two, two engineers for one, since
I'd like to live on the same coast as my husband.
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