She received her B.S. in Biochemistry at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) in 2003 and her Ph.D. in biophysics in 2009at The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA). She went on to a NSRA funded postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University before joining the faculty of Indiana University in the summer of 2012. Her research focuses on applying and further developing modern multidimensional infrared spectroscopy in combination with chemical and biological methods toward understanding biological systems. Her group aims to generate residue-specific descriptions of the structural dynamics of proteins, delineate their contributions to function, and assess the role of dynamics in protein evolution. A central interest of her group is biological molecular recognition, particularly involving proteins with intrinsically disordered regions.