Megan began her scientific career as an undergraduate at Caltech. There, she conducted research in the laboratory of Prof. Harry Gray, where she was introduced to molecular synthesis, spectroscopy, and inorganic chemistry. This introduction to coordination chemistry and organometallics served as the lens through which she approached heterogeneous electrocatalysis as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow in the Surendranath lab at MIT. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2019, she joined the Long lab at UC Berkeley, supported by an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship and a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Award. Her postdoctoral research focused on bringing molecular-level understanding to the factors governing the materials properties of metal-organic framework crystals. She joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022. Her favorite transition metal is Pt.
Workshop Participation in Collaboration with Pine Research
