Professional Experience

Texas Tech University

The following topics were investigated in my time at Texas Tech:
  • Computational prediction of the nonadiabatic behavior of DNA bases.
  • Direct dynamics simulation of the reaction between carbenes and nitrenium ions with water.
  • Post-transition state direct dynamics study of the biosynthesis of abietadiene.

I also participated in the following:
  • 2010 Partnership for International Research Collaboration and Education (PIRE), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, May 30 - July 23, 2010.
  • Mesilla chemistry workshop, Mesilla, NM, February 7-10, 2010.

University of California - Davis

Professional development: “Academic Inclusion, Undoing Marginalization on Campus,” April 10 & 11, 2009

In addition to those topics that produced reports, the following areas were also investigated while at UC Davis:
  • Computational prediction of 1H and 13C NMR properties.
  • Formation of kinked ladderanes.
  • Metal-catalyzed aza-vinyl cyclopropane to aza-cyclopentene rearrangements.
  • Rh-catalyzed cyclization of allene-ynes.
  • Rh(I)-catalyzed C-H activation/6π-electrocyclization cascades.
  • Zwitterionic, anionic and cationic aza-Cope rearrangements.
  • Fundamental properties of aziridines.
  • (2+2)-cycloaddition of allene-ynes.
  • Pericyclic reactions of heteroaromatic systems.