Christian Reece
Principal Investigator
Christian Reece received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Bath, where he worked on computational studies on semiconductor materials. He received his PhD from Cardiff University, and his doctoral work was focused on using kinetic analysis to better understand and design heterogeneous catalysts by using a number of experimental and theoretical techniques. He then went on to postdoc at Harvard University with Prof. Robert J. Madix, focusing on utilising transient pulse techniques and kinetic modelling to rationalise catalytic behaviour. He joined the Rowland Fellows program in July 2019 with the goal to design transient experiments in order to rationalise and predict catalytic behaviour.
Group Members
Christopher O’Connor
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chris O'Connor received his Chemistry B.S. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD from Harvard University where he investigated the surface chemistry and dynamic material rearrangement of bimetallic alloy surfaces from near-ambient pressure to UHV conditions in the laboratory of Prof. Cynthia Friend. He performed postdoctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Greg Kimmel and Dr. Zdenek Dohnalek, where he investigated the structure of water-metal oxide interfaces using model single-crystal surfaces and investigated the surface chemistry of oxide single-crystal surfaces and nanoparticle materials to address the "materials gap" in heterogeneous catalysis. Chris will be investigating the kinetics of catalyst materials using a transient flow reactor.
Samantha Le
Undergraduate Researcher
Samantha Le is a senior chemistry major at Tufts University who joined the group through the Rowland Institute Summer Student program. They will be working on a combining experiments in the miniTAP reactor with kinetic modelling.
Group Photos
June 23rd 2023
August 9th 2022
May 28th 2022
August 12th 2021
Alumni
Esther Lee
(2021)
Undergraduate Researcher
Eric High
(2019 – 2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tina Gong
(2022)
Undergraduate Researcher
Jara Emtage-Cave
(2022)
Undergraduate Researcher
Lilliana Brandão
(2020 - 2023)
Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Taek-Seung Kim
(2022 - 2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow