Bailey’s research in the Zuerch Group in the College of Chemistry is focused on using new and developing spectroscopic tools to understand novel behavior of next-generation electronic materials for applications like low-power computing and high-efficiency solar cells. She is passionate about contributing to technological solutions to the climate crisis and is excited about advances in materials science recently that introduce a wide variety of unique materials into potential electronic device fabrication. Despite being a physical scientist, Bailey is an amateur environmentalist and spends much of her free time exploring nature through hiking and backpacking.