Jonathan Whitmer
Concurrent Associate Professor
- Office
- 374 Nieuwland Science Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-1417
- jwhitme1@nd.edu
Research Areas
- Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Research Specialties
- Materials
- Theory
Prospective Graduate Students
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.