Biography

Emily has been working with ceramics as a creative medium and an engineering material for over 25 years. Her childhood fascination with clay and glaze chemistry drove her to pursue higher education in science and engineering. In addition to a BS in chemistry and a PhD in materials science and engineering, Emily received an MS in ceramic engineering from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.  Emily moved to the Upper Valley in 2015 and now lives in Plainfield, NH. She is both a researcher and a potter.  As a researcher, she leads a research group focused on surfaces and interfaces in crystalline and ceramic materials for water resources, adhesion, and infrastructure applications.  As a potter, she is focused on connecting art to science; craft to engineering. She makes wheel-thrown forms and sculptural forms with shapes and surface designs based on the geometric motifs present in the constituent clay and glaze materials at the micro, nano, and atomic scales. See a version of her CV here.