Jonathan Whitmer

Concurrent Associate Professor

Office
374 Nieuwland Science Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
+1 574-631-1417
Email
jwhitme1@nd.edu

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Research Areas

  • Physical/Analytical Chemistry

Research Specialties

  • Materials
  • Theory

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Biography

Year Title
2020-Present Concurrent Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
2020-Present Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
2014-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
2013-2014 Postdoctoral Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin
2011 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois
2009 M.S. in Physics, University of Illinois
2005 B.S. in Physics and Mathematics, summa cum laude, Kansas State University

Selected Awards

2018   NSF CAREER Award

2018   Emerging Investigator in Materials Science, Materials Research Express

Selected Publications

  • Alonso, K.; Baksi, A.; Knight, I.; Nguyen, N.; Farshad, M.; Srivastava, S. and Whitmer, J. K. "An Explicit Solvent Model of Coacervate Structure and Thermodynamics" 2026 Journal of Chemical Physics, 164 (2), 024904. DOI: 10.1063/5.0305035.
  • Farshad, M.; Ansah-Antwi, A.; Valença, P. and Whitmer, J. K. "Non-Equilibrium Trajectory Sampling (NETS) Method for Generating Free-Energy Landscapes and Steady-State Distributions" 2025 Journal of Chemical Physics, 163 (22), 224125. DOI: 10.1063/5.0290883.
  • Gao, F.; Hoffman, J. R.; Xu, J. L.; Ievlev, A.; Whitmer, J. K. and Phillip, W. A. "Interfacial Electroneutrality Controls Transport of Asymmetric Salts through Charge-Patterned Mosaic Membranes" 2025 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122 (35), E2504069122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504069122.
  • Mendible-Barreto, O. A.; Whitmer, J. K. and Colon, Y. J. "Considerations in the use of Machine Learning Force Fields for Free Energy Calculations" 2025 Journal of Chemical Physics, 162 (17), 174119. DOI: 10.1063/5.0252043.
  • Hennes, L. M.; Behringer, C.; Farshad, M.; Schaefer, J. L. and Whitmer, J. K. "Controlling Electrostatics to Enhance Conductivity in Structured Electrolytes" 2025 Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 16 (6), pp.1590–1596. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02939.
  • Liu, J. C.; Diaz-Segura, M.; Manning, A. S.; Yang, L. Y.; Devkota, G.; Upadhyay, S. P.; Whitmer, J. K. and Schaefer, J. L. "Amphiphilic Salts as Single-Component, Solvent-Free, Lithium Electrolytes" 2025 Electrochimica Acta, 511, 145415. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2024.145415.