The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Jacquelyne A. Read will be joining Dartmouth as a Research Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Fall of 2021. Jacquelyne obtained her B.S. in Chemistry in 2012 at Wheaton College (IL), where she was introduced to laboratory research in synthetic organic chemistry under the advisement of Prof. Mark P. Niemczyk. She then moved to New York University and studied the diffusion-controlled reactivity of allylmagnesium halides with carbonyl compounds under the direction of Prof. Keith A. Woerpel, completing her Ph.D. in 2018. For postdoctoral studies, she joined the groups of Profs. Matthew S. Sigman (University of Utah) and Eric N. Jacobsen (Harvard University) as a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH postdoctoral fellow and worked on collaborative research applying computational and data science tools to investigate noncovalently driven, asymmetric catalysis.
The Read group at Dartmouth will conduct interdisciplinary research with the goal of providing creative solutions to contemporary challenges in organic chemistry. In particular, their focus will be developing new experimental and computational tools to study noncovalent interactions in a range of chemical systems, primarily working to improve catalytic processes.