Debbie Zhuang joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2019 and is pursuing her PhD under Martin Z. Bazant. She is from Irvine, California and received a BS in chemical engineering and mathematics from UC San Diego in 2019. As an undergraduate, she studied ion solvation using many-body molecular dynamics under Francesco Paesani. She is interested in statistical mechanics, transport, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, physical chemistry, and electrochemistry. Currently, she is studying temperature effects in phase separating porous electrodes, degradation in nickel rich electrodes, and population effects in porous electrodes. She is a MIT Presidential Fellow, and her hobbies include reading, baking, corgis, eating good food, and lots of dessert.