Research Interests: physical chemistry, spectroscopy

Marissa was born in Pasadena, CA and raised in Denver, CO and Bedford, MA. She obtained her B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 2012 and her Ph.D. in chemistry University of California, Berkeley in 2017. She carried out her postdoctoral work at the University of Colorado Boulder. Marissa began her independent research career in the Princeton University Department of Chemistry in July 2020. Outside of the lab, Marissa can usually be found walking long distances in the great outdoors or doing cryptic crossword puzzles (though rarely both at the same time).