
Jonathan Whitmer
Soft Materials Modeling & Computation
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.
Contact Information
- Concurrent Associate Professor
- Office: 374 Nieuwland Science Hall
- Phone: 574-631-1417
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