I joined Keith Berland’s lab to learn how to acquire dynamical information from biological molecules at thermal equilibrium. Before that, I worked with Steve Hagen at the University of Florida studying fast dynamics in protein folding using various time-resolved techniques to induce the folding transition. My projects at Berland lab include studying conformational dynamics of a nuclear import protein, binding energetics of a nuclear export receptor, and characterization and improvement of fluctuation spectroscopy instrumentation. I got my Ph.D in Physics at UF in 2004, my B.S. in Physics from the University of the Philippines in 1997. I was a physics instructor at the National Institute of Physics at UP prior to graduate school at UF.