Graduate research assistant

Elizabeth grew up in Northern Virginia and earned her bachelors degree from Stanford University in 2016, studying engineering physics and computer science. After starting her Ph.D. in applied physics at Columbia, she joined the Billinge group in fall 2017. She is excited to apply PDF techniques to the characterization of superatom systems and other novel materials. In her spare time she enjoys making soup and singing barbershop music.

Education & Employment


Butterfly Network Inc.

Software Engineer

New, NY, 2019 - present

Columbia University

masters research assistant in Applied Physics

New York, NY, 2016 - present
  • Advisor: Simon Billinge

Columbia University

Masters Research Assistant

New York, NY, 2018 - 2019

Stanford University

BS in Engineering Physics

Stanford, CA, 2012 - 2016
  • Concentration: Renewable Energy
  • Minor: Computer Science

Stanford University Department of Physics

Teaching Assistant

Stanford, CA, 2015 - 2015
  • Course: Physics 45: Light and Heat

Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Summer Institutues

Teaching Assistant

Stanford, CA, 2015 - 2015
  • Courses: Theory of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics

Stanford Online High School

Teaching Assistant

Stanford, CA, 2013 - 2015
  • Course: Inquiry-Based Physics

Virginia Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Blacksburg, VA, 2014 - 2014

Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Summer Institutues

Teaching Assistant

Stanford, CA, 2013 - 2013
  • Courses: Theory of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics

Publications

  1. Nathan Nakamura, Laisuo Su, Han Wang, Noam Bernstein, Shikhar Krishn Jha, Elizabeth Culbertson, Haiyan Wang, Simon J. L. Billinge, C. Stephen Hellberg, and B. Reeja-Jayan. "Linking Far-from-Equilibrium Defect Structures in Ceramics to Electromagnetic Driving Forces". J. Mater. Chem. A . 9 p. 8425-8434 Mar 2021 download doi
  2. Long Yang, Elizabeth A. Culbertson, Nancy K. Thomas, Hung T. Vuong, Emil T. S. Kj{\ae}r, Kirsten M. {\O}. Jensen, Matthew G. Tucker, and Simon J. L. Billinge. "A cloud platform for atomic pair distribution function analysis: {PDF}itc". Acta Crystallogr. A . 77 p. 2-6 Jan 2021 download doi

Memberships


American Physical Society

Member, 2016 - present