Jillian received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri in 2020. She is now pursuing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford focused on novel nanoscale structures towards enhanced phase change heat transfer. She is the recipient of the National GEM Consortium Fellowship as well as the Stanford EDGE Fellowship and is currently supported by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Outside of the laboratory, Jillian enjoys practicing yoga, meditation, and music.