Will Brackett is a first year graduate student in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is dually advised by Delia Milliron and Thomas Truskett. He completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2023. During his undergraduate education, Will participated in research at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory focusing on development and characterization of novel electrochemically active soft materials. In the Milliron and Truskett groups, he studies fundamental characteristics of colloidal metal oxide nanocrystals and new mechanisms of controlled assembly into ordered structures or networks.