Graduate Student Biography Born and raised in Jessamine Co. Kentucky. Attended University of Kentucky for four years and recieved a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Mathematics with a Physics Minor. Currently attending University of Georgia in anticipation of receiving a PhD in Chemistry. Amateur Thomist. Alter alterius onera portate, et sic adimplebitis legem Christi. Dominus regit me, et nihil mihi deerit. In loco pascuae ibi me collacavit. Education Education: Graduated from West Jessamine High School in 2016. Graduated from University of Kentucky Summa Cum Laude with degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics as well as a minor in Physics. Currently a first year PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Research Research Areas: Computational/Theoretical Chemistry Research Interests: Applications of high accuracy quantum chemistry to novel systems of interest. Selected Publications Selected Publications: Exploiting Excited-State Aromaticity To Design Highly Stable Singlet Fission Materials: 10.1021/jacs.9b06346 Noncovalent Close Contacts in Fluorinated Thiophene–Phenylene–Thiophene Conjugated Units: Understanding the Nature and Dominance of O···H versus S···F and O···F Interactions with Respect to the Control of Polymer Conformation: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01886
