Annie is a 4th year applied physics graduate student studying light scattering in disordered systems such as colloidal glasses. She's interested in understanding how the level of order in nanoscale structures affects light scattering and structural color. She is developing computational tools to predict light scattering in these systems and also fabricates and characterizes them experimentally. Outside of the lab, she enjoys science writing and is a managing editor for the science blog Softbites.