Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Biography

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

Recent Publications

• Cortes-Morales, E. C.; Rathee, V. S.; Ghobadi, A. and Whitmer, J. K. "A Molecular View of Plasticization of Polyvinyl Alcohol" 2021 Journal of Chemical Physics, 155 (17), 174903. DOI: 10.1063/5.0065964.
• Govoni, M.; Whitmer, J.; de Pablo, J.; Gygi, F. and Galli, G. "Code Interoperability Extends the Scope of Quantum Simulations" 2021 NPJ Computational Materials, 7 (1), 32. DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00501-z.
• Shi, J. L.; Sidky, H. and Whitmer, J. K. "Automated Determination Ofn-Cyanobiphenyl Andn-Cyanobiphenyl Binary Mixtures Elastic Constants in the Nematic Phase from Molecular Simulation" 2020 Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 5 (6), pp.1131-1136. DOI: 10.1039/c9me00065h.
• Huang, S. H.; Quevillon, M. J.; Kyhl, S. and 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. and 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.
• Shi, J. L.; Sidky, H. and Whitmer, J. K. "Novel Elastic Response in Twist-Bend Nematic Models" 2019 Soft Matter, 15 (41), pp.8219-8226. DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01395d.