Hi! My name is Joann. For now, I’m a senior at Horace Mann High School interested in energy systems, sustainability design, public policy/foreign affairs, and more recently, math. I’m learning to do research. My past works have been scattered—exploring glioblastoma neoantigen vaccines, assessing nuclear waste saltbeds, and doing lots of independent research into economic policy on the state level, but I’m hoping to get into energy science and technology with a more mathematical taste in the future. I also enjoy writing about international relations and political thought as a way to discharge my musings.

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Any biographical blurb would be incomplete without an origin story. Way before doing research, I was a Public Forum debater. As I debated competitively through all four years of high school, I realized that the development of energy technologies and resources lay at the intersection of almost all global issues: the climate crisis, developing economies, geo-political tensions, and much more. It was through debate that I was introduced to research into energy system applications and sustainable policy-making, and that was when I started blogging. Hopefully, by exploring my blog, you will come to share my love for em-dashes, the Cold War, and nuclear power plants.