Pearl received her BS degrees in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Georgia. Her undergraduate research involved spectroscopic studies of purified carbon nanotubes with emphasis on UV-vis and Raman spectroscopy and the X-ray protein crystallography with a focus on crystallizing and finishing a Glutathione Reductase mutant structure. She joined Micromeritics in 2017 as a lab analyst, managing physisorption and chemisorption analyses in the PTA lab for a couple years. She joined the applications team in 2020, specializing in physisorption.