Biography

Hayden is from Martinsville, Indiana. He is pursuing concurrent Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University, with minors in Physics and Mathematics. As part of the Cox Access Scholarship program, Hayden joined the FAMES Lab in 2023, where he has since contributed to research projects involving the fabrication of polymeric nanocomposites. His areas of interest include fabrication and synthesis of functional materials, emergent properties of complex and nanoscale systems, computational modeling, and microfluidics.