About

The desire for, and large-scale production of, cheap, useful materials has often come at the expense of the environment. To effectively produce agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and plastics that are biodegradable and/or sourced from non-petroleum feedstocks, a thorough reimagination of current industrial process is required. This will not happen quickly or cheaply. Most importantly, this will not happen without a detailed understanding of the chemical materials and catalysts used to generate the end-user products. Our research focuses on isolating and quantifying specific properties of next-generation chemical catalysts. These data can then be correlated to catalyst function and used in predictive algorithms to design industrially useful catalysts. Though extremely fundamental, the broad applicability of such data will prove useful in many areas that are of importance to the ACRE collaboration. I am excited to work with this fantastic group of scientists!

Education

B.S. Chemistry and Mathematics, The College of William and Mary, 2008M.S. Chemistry, Yale University, 2010Ph.D. Chemistry, Yale University, 2012Postdoctoral Training: University of Washington, 2012-2015· Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellow, 2012-2013

Research Interests

Organometallic Chemistry
Chemical Synthesis
Chemical Catalysis
Chemical Mechanism