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
Recent Papers
Shi, J., Sidky, H., Whitmer, J. K. "Automated determination of: N-cyanobiphenyl and n-cyanobiphenyl binary mixtures elastic constants in the nematic phase from molecular simulation" 2020 Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, 5 (6), pp. 1131-1136. DOI:10.1039/c9me00065h.
Huang, S., Quevillon, M. J., Kyhl, S., Whitmer, J. K. "Surveying the free energy landscape of clusters of attractive colloidal spheres" 2020 Journal of Chemical Physics, 152 (13), 134901. DOI:10.1063/1.5144984.
Sevgen, E., Guo, A. Z., Sidky, H., Whitmer, J. K., De Pablo, J. J. "Combined Force-Frequency Sampling for Simulation of Systems Having Rugged Free Energy Landscapes" 2020 Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 16 (3), pp. 1448-1455. DOI:10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00883.
Leonhard, A. C., Whitmer, J. K. "Accurate Determination of Cavitand Binding Free Energies via Unrestrained Advanced Sampling" 2019 Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 15 (11), pp. 5761-5768. DOI:10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00348.
Shi, J., Sidky, H., Whitmer, J. K. "Novel elastic response in twist-bend nematic models" 2019 Soft Matter, 15 (41), pp. 8219-8226. DOI:10.1039/c9sm01395d.
Rathee, V. S., Sidky, H., Sikora, B. J., Whitmer, J. K. "Explicit ion effects on the charge and conformation of weak polyelectrolytes" 2019 Polymers, 11 (1), 183. DOI:10.3390/POLYM11010183.
