Faculty Candidate Seminar

Biosynthesis and Mechanistic Investigation of Unusual Synthons in Natural Products Speaker: Antonio Del Rio Flores, University of California, Berkeley Host: Jerome Fox Tuesday, February 21, 2023 – 2:45pm – JSCBB A108 Seminar Abstract Natural products, often referred to as specialized metabolites, are small molecules known for their potent bioactivities relevant...

Carolyn Mills, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the lab of Professor Danielle Tullman-Ercek.

Vivian Feig, PhD, is a Schmidt Science Fellow and postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso and Professor Robert Langer at MIT and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In this talk, Feig will show how soft matter can enable bio-interfacing materials to circumvent the tradeoff between dynamism and functionality for two particularly difficult use cases: bio-electronics and load-bearing materials.

In this talk, Andrew Rosen, Miller Research Fellow, will discuss how quantum chemistry, high-throughput computing and machine learning can help guide experiments and accelerate the discovery of novel materials to address a variety of global challenges relevant to the field of chemical engineering.

A Road Toward Sustainability – from Materials to Processes Speaker: Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez, Postdoctoral Associate University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: Will Medlin Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 2:45 p.m., JSCBB A108 Seminar Abstract Industrial processes and transportation account for more than 70% of the United States energy consumption. Finding strategies to...

Computational Engineering of Materials at the Nanoscale—where “Classical” meets “Quantum” Speaker: Elizabeth Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher University of Chicago Host: Kayla Sprenger Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 2:45 p.m., JSCBB A108 Seminar Abstract Recent trends in materials have increasingly gone “nano”, transforming bulk material down to only a few hundred atoms...

Improved understanding of transport in concentrated electrolyte solutions has important implications for energy storage, water purification, biological applications, and more. This understanding should ideally persist across length scales: we desire both continuum-level insight into macroscopic concentration and electric potential profiles as well as a molecular-level understanding of the mechanisms governing ion motion. However, the most ubiquitous theory to describe continuum-level electrolyte transport, the Stefan-Maxwell equations, yields transport coefficients which lack clear molecular-level interpretation and cannot be easily computed from molecular simulations.

Electrifying the Chemical Industry through Electrocatalyst Discovery and Nanoscale in situ Imaging Speaker: Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley Host: Joel Kaar Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 - 2:45 p.m. via Zoom Seminar Abstract Electrochemical materials are required to store renewable energy and sustainably couple...