Nori Zaccheo is an NSF iREU student from the United States spending the summer doing a research fellowship in the group of Prof. Falcaro. She just finished her second year of undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, in Syracuse, New York, studying both chemistry and forensic science. Her primary research focus is in the field of inorganic nano materials, specifically quantum dots. In the group of Prof. Falcaro, Nori is working on deriving metal-organic frameworks from quantum dots.