Elise graduated in the summer of 2016 with her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering working on the electron swarm model. She did her undergraduate in Nuclear Engineering at RPI and continued her undergraduate research with her advisor, Dr. Wei Ji. Elise is avidly pro-nuclear power and has done research in the inherently safe, next-generation nuclear reactors with Dr. Ji for the first two years of her Ph.D. Dr. Ji encouraged her to attend a 10 week Computational Physics Workshop at LANL during Summer 2012 where she worked with Dr. Heidi Tierney on developing an electron swarm model for studying lightening initiation. Dr. Tierney invited Elise back to LANL as a GRA and is able to continue her research as a collaborative effort at RPI during the semesters and at LANL during the breaks and she continued research in that area for her Ph.D.