Connie received her B.Sc. in Physics at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada), and her Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Polymer Physics at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). She also completed post-doctoral positions at Simon Fraser University (British-Columbia, Canada) and Northwestern University (Chicago, IL). Connie has been a faculty member at Emory since 2007. Connie's research falls under the area of Experimental Soft Matter Physics. Her research interests include polymer materials, glass transition, physical aging, photophysics, miscibility and phase separation; effects of nanoconfinement, surfaces and interfaces, external stresses, electric fields, and nanoparticles.