Member of Polymers for Advanced Energy and Sustainability Lab
Ashley David is a senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Florida State University. She is originally from Birmingham, Michigan, nearby Detroit, Michigan. She discovered her passion for research after joining Dr. Daniel T. Hallinan’s Polymers for Advanced Energy Sustainability her junior year (2021). Since then, she has worked on analyzing the Soret Effect to use in energy re-harvesting capacities, earning the support of the MagLabs REU program in Summer 2022, as well as the Steve Madden IDEA Grant award from FSU. She is continuing this Soret effect research as part of her undergraduate honors in the major thesis, and will soon have her worked published as first author. Along with this, she works on the website design team for the RIDER Center at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, a research center devoted to using innovative technologies to promote all-inclusive and equitable disaster resilience for vulnerable populations. After graduating from FSU, Ashley plans to continue her studies at Ph.D. program in Chemical Engineering, pursuing a future in connecting industry and academia.
