Chris L.

Chris has extensive research experience in biology and physical chemistry. In high school, he worked on studying cancer genetics, culminating in two first-author publications on melanoma genetics and a corresponding author publication on colorectal cancer genetics. In college, Chris became interested in using physical chemistry tools to probe biological systems. He helped develop a novel optically-controlled spatial-omics tool that has also been published. For his work on this project, he was awarded the Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry by the American Chemical Society.

During his time at Harvard, Chris served as President of the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA) for over two years, and was awarded over $5,000 as Herchel-Smith Undergraduate Science Research Program Fellow to fund his summer research. He was also recently awarded Best Poster Presentation in Biochemistry at the Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium. 

Chris has over four years of tutoring experience as a Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology teaching fellow. Throughout college, he taught introductory courses in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and genetics, as well as graduate-level biochemistry. He was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from Harvard several times for his commitment to instruction.

Chris’s approach to tutoring centers on thoughtfully assessing student understanding before designing curated materials that fit their learning style. He emphasizes this personalized approach to ensure that students can understand difficult concepts intuitively and, therefore, think flexibly through problems independently. Chris considers communication and collaboration between teacher and student to be some of his greatest strengths. Seeing students grow and experience those moments of "a-ha" understanding is immensely satisfying to him.