Susan received her B.A. in Chemistry (highest honors) and Art History in 2009 and her M.A. in Chemistry in 2010 from Clark University. In the summer of 2008, she split her time between working in a synthetic chemistry lab for her honors thesis and working on the Antiocheia ad Cragum Archaeological Reconstruction Project in Güney, Turkey. With interests in both the sciences and in cultural heritage research, Susan began her studies at Brown University seeking to form a bridge between the engineering and archaeology departments. As a member of the first cohort of the Open Graduate Education Program, she is pursuing her doctoral degree in engineering materials science and her master's degree in archaeology. She has spent two summers surveying (ground and geophysical) with the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP). Her research focuses on neutron applications in cultural heritage research, which she undertakes at a national laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. Her interests in reverse engineering materials encompasses such topics as production technology, technological choice, and cross-craft production.