The CoReACTER logo: A cartoon of a reactor, with swirls of blue and green against a light blue background. Under the cartoon is text saying 'CoReACTER'.

Humans of the CoReACTER

ReACTERs

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Evan Walter Clark Spotte-Smith (EWCSS) (they/them)
Current Position: Incoming Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, CMU
E-mail: ewcspottesmith@cmu.edu

Collaborators

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Samuel M. Blau (he/him)
Current Position: Career Research Scientist, LBNL
E-mail: smblau@lbl.gov

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Rachel C. Kurchin (she/her)
Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, CMU
E-mail: rkurchin@cmu.edu

Visiting Researchers

Alumni and Former Affiliates

Interested in Joining?

Graduate Students

The CoReACTER plans to hire two doctoral students in the Fall 2025 semester. One student will be working on developing computational methods to explore electrochemical reactivity using chemical reaction networks and multiscale modeling. The other student will be working on employing high-throughput experiments to design reactions for polymer recycling.

Postdocs

We do not currently have funding for postdoctoral researchers, but interested candidates who currently hold external funding or are willing to pursue postdoctoral fellowships are always welcome to reach out. Some opportunities for postdoc fellowships are provided in our resources page.

Undergraduates

The CoReACTER always welcomes undergraduate researchers! CMU students can perform research for credit. It may also be possible to obtain funding for undergraduate research (e.g., through HURAY). No prior research experience is required to work in the CoReACTER, but a background in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, or computer science may be helpful.

Instructions

If you are interested in working in the CoReACTER, please send an e-mail to EWCSS. In your message, please provide a CV and answer the following questions:

  1. What project(s) you are interested in working on?

  2. Why you are interested in this work, and in working in the CoReACTER?

  3. What is your least favorite word (in any language), and why?

All source code and software associated with this website is released under the MIT license. The text, including blog posts, are released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Please attribute this work overall to The CoReACTER; Evan Walter Clark Spotte-Smith. Individual posts should be attributed to their authors. Last modified: September 27, 2024. This website was built with the Julia programming language and the Franklin.jl static web framework, building off of the "basic" template.