 The Gilbreth Fellowship was a really great opportunity for me, especially because I did my PhD abroad. I was able to learn the American funding system, how to write grants, and I was really able to take advantage of Purdue's professional development opportunities. The Gilbreth Fellowship is a really special opportunity because you get to work on multiple projects with multiple people. A lot of postdoctoral fellowships, you're limited to one project or one laboratory, but I really felt welcome anywhere I went. Everyone was happy to collaborate with me. So during my Gilbreth Fellowship, I was able to be involved in a number of drinking water issues, especially as disasters impact drinking water quality. So I was involved in the campfire response where we went out to California to see how the fire affected the water quality there. The Gilbreth Fellowship really afforded me the freedom to pursue my own research interests. Having the Gilbreth Fellowship enabled me to collaborate across departments since the intent of the Gilbreth Fellowship is to be interdisciplinary in nature. And so in my specific instance, I was able to collaborate in chemical engineering and in chemistry, which made my projects more impactful. I was able to expand my expertise by working more independently on research projects than I did during my PhD. And this really enabled me to develop my skills in the area of fuel cells and electro-catalysis, which are distinct from what I did during my PhD. In my PhD, I focused on next generation batteries. In my research, I used molecular modeling to sort of understand at an atomistic level the chemical processes related to the renewable production of hydrogen and of the conversion of hydrogen into usable energy, such as in a fuel cell. The fact that the Gilbreth Fellowship offers me diversified the research experience and also diverse lab measurement skills and communication skills with different people definitely leads me to be a more confident researcher. The Gilbreth Fellowship allowed me to have two co-advisors from a completely different department. My Gilbreth Fellowship research focused on solar cell device fabrication. So we started from understanding the fundamental knowledge about the solar cell and trying to improve it as molecular engineering to get the more efficient charge generation and the charge separation, finally get more efficient solar cell devices. Through the Gilbreth Fellowship, I've developed as a researcher because of the interdisciplinary nature of working in the biomedical and mechanical engineering departments and through working with biologists and biomedical engineers to develop the microfluidic devices that I designed to be compatible with the downstream biology so that we can have a fully integrated platform that can help us actually build a better tool for disease diagnostics. For my Gilbreth Fellowship, I developed microfluidic devices for point of care diagnostics of diseases such as malaria, HIV, and cholera. These microfluidic devices are designed to be compatible with a smartphone platform and then eventually be scalable to help manufacture these in bulk so we can eradicate these diseases. My fellowship really cemented my love for academia. I was able to pursue different kinds of research projects just like you would as a PI and I was also able to work directly with graduate students and I really loved mentoring them through the whole process.