Honors 2015 Etter Award for Young Investigator American Crystallographic Association 2016 Professor of the semester (UT Austin) 2017 Professor of the Year (UT Austin) 2017 Faculty Service Award (UT Austin) 2019 Natural Science Foundation Teaching Excellence Award 2019 College of Natural Science Teaching Excellence Award 2021 Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Molecular Biosciences 2022 VPR Creative and Innovative Award, UT Austin 2023 Rosetta Briegel Barton Lectureship (University of Oklahoma) 2023 L. Leon Campbell Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry 2024 Provost Mentorship Academy Mentor 2024 Aspiring Leaders Academy Fellow 2025 Fellow of American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology