{"id":367,"date":"2022-10-20T00:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/?page_id=367"},"modified":"2023-10-17T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:25:13","slug":"lead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/group\/lead\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PXL_20210722_133630874_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-368\" width=\"671\" height=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department and leader of the UBC Astrochemistry Laboratory. I am an astrochemist who uses the tools of physical chemistry to understand how molecules form and evolve in interstellar space and star-forming regions. I grew up in Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand. I received my bachelor&#8217;s degree in chemistry in 2012 after undertaking a project at the Centre for Trace Elements Otago in the lab of Dr Claudine Stirling studying uranium isotopes in meteorites and marine carbonates. After a short stint as a research assistant at Otago, I moved to Charlottesville, Virginia to undertake my PhD in physical chemistry as a Fulbright Fellow. During my PhD in the group of Prof John T. Yates Jr., I conducted experiments studying low-temperature chemical and physical processes in laboratory analogues of ices found in cold interstellar regions. From 2016 to 2018, I worked in the lab of Dr Karin Oberg at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics where I studied\u00a0the dynamics, chemistry and spectroscopy of interstellar ices. Following my PhD, I took up a position as a Marie Curie fellow\u00a0at the Institut de Physique de Rennes at the Universit\u00e9 de\u00a0Rennes 1, France where I worked on low-temperature gas-phase reactions of astrochemical importance. I studied the kinetics of gas-phase reactions involving aromatic molecules of relevance to the cold interstellar medium. I enjoy spending time outdoors, mountain biking, reading, sewing my own clothes and cooking (and eating!) good food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department and leader of the UBC Astrochemistry Laboratory. I am an astrochemist who uses the tools of physical chemistry to understand how molecules form and evolve in interstellar space and star-forming regions. I grew up in Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand. I received my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/group\/lead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":207,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions\/428"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups2.chem.ubc.ca\/cooke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}