Jillian Lee Dempsey

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Jillian Lee Dempsey
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Alma materMIT (S.B.) (2005)[1]
Caltech (Ph.D.) (2010)[1]
Spouse(s)Alex J. M. Miller
Scientific career
FieldsInorganic Chemistry, Photochemistry, Electrochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ThesisHydrogen evolution catalyzed by cobaloximes (2010)
Doctoral advisorHarry B. Gray
Other academic advisorsDaniel G. Nocera, Daniel R. Gamelin
Websitechem.unc.edu/faculty/dempsey-jillian/

Jillian Lee Dempsey is an American inorganic chemist and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, her work focuses on proton-coupled electron transfer, charge transfer events, and quantum dots.[2] She is the recipient of numerous awards for rising stars of chemistry, including most recently a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship[3] and a 2016 Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP).[4]

Education and training[]

Dempsey attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her undergraduate, earning her S.B. in Chemistry in 2005. She worked with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera on the development of molecular water splitting catalysts.[5][6] While at MIT, she also worked at Merck Research Laboratories' Department of Analytical Research, on the development of HPLC columns for pharmaceutical process development.[7] Dempsey then travelled to the California Institute of Technology for graduate studies, where she worked in the laboratory of Prof. Harry B. Gray and Jay R. Winkler.[8][9] Dempsey's research at Caltech focused on elucidating the mechanism of hydrogen evolution for cobaloxime catalysts,[10][11] as well as the reactivity of photogenerated osmium(II) complexes.[12] She graduated with her Ph.D. in 2011.

From 2011 to 2012, Dempsey then conducted postdoctoral research as an NSF American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow in the laboratory of at the University of Washington.[13] There, she worked on photoconductive quantum dot thin films,[14] as well as magnetic coupling in illuminated quantum dots.[15]

Independent career[]

Dempsey began her independent career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012 as an Assistant Professor. She was granted tenure in 2018 and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. Since 2020, she has served as the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor.

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Dempsey, Jillian L.; Winkler, Jay R.; Gray, Harry B. (November 17, 2010). "Proton-Coupled Electron Flow in Protein Redox Machines". Chem. Rev. 110 (12): 7024–7039. doi:10.1021/cr100182b. PMC 3005815. PMID 21082865.
  2. ^ "Research – Dempsey Group". University of North Carolina. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  3. ^ a b "Past Fellows". sloan.org. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  4. ^ a b "Air Force Office of Scientific Research Awards Grants to 56 Scientists and Engineers through Young Investigator Research Program". Defense Acquisition University. 2016-01-14. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  5. ^ Dempsey, Jillian L.; Esswein, Arthur J.; Manke, David R.; Rosenthal, Joel; Soper, Jake D.; Nocera, Daniel G. (2005-10-01). "Molecular Chemistry of Consequence to Renewable Energy". Inorganic Chemistry. 44 (20): 6879–6892. doi:10.1021/ic0509276. ISSN 0020-1669.
  6. ^ Esswein, Arthur J.; Dempsey, Jillian L.; Nocera, Daniel G. (2007-04-01). "A RhII−AuII Bimetallic Core with a Direct Metal−Metal Bond". Inorganic Chemistry. 46 (7): 2362–2364. doi:10.1021/ic062203f. ISSN 0020-1669.
  7. ^ "Practical aspects of fast HPLC separations for pharmaceutical process development using monolithic columns". Analytica Chimica Acta. 523 (2): 149–156. 2004-10-11. doi:10.1016/j.aca.2004.07.069. ISSN 0003-2670.
  8. ^ Dempsey, Jillian L.; Winkler, Jay R.; Gray, Harry B. (2010-12-08). "Proton-Coupled Electron Flow in Protein Redox Machines". Chemical Reviews. 110 (12): 7024–7039. doi:10.1021/cr100182b. ISSN 0009-2665. PMC 3005815. PMID 21082865.
  9. ^ Dempsey, Jillian L.; Brunschwig, Bruce S.; Winkler, Jay R.; Gray, Harry B. (2009-12-21). "Hydrogen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobaloximes". Accounts of Chemical Research. 42 (12): 1995–2004. doi:10.1021/ar900253e. ISSN 0001-4842.
  10. ^ Dempsey, Jillian L.; Winkler, Jay R.; Gray, Harry B. (2010-01-27). "Kinetics of Electron Transfer Reactions of H2-Evolving Cobalt Diglyoxime Catalysts". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (3): 1060–1065. doi:10.1021/ja9080259. ISSN 0002-7863.
  11. ^ Dempsey, Jillian L.; Winkler, Jay R.; Gray, Harry B. (2010-12-01). "Mechanism of H2 Evolution from a Photogenerated Hydridocobaloxime". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (47): 16774–16776. doi:10.1021/ja109351h. ISSN 0002-7863.
  12. ^ Dempsey, Jillian L.; Winkler, Jay R.; Gray, Harry B. (2011-10-05). "Redox reactivity of photogenerated osmium(II) complexes". Dalton Transactions. 40 (40): 10633–10636. doi:10.1039/C1DT11138H. ISSN 1477-9234.
  13. ^ "Gamelin Research Group". University of Washington. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  14. ^ White, Michael A.; Dempsey, Jillian L.; Carroll, Gerard M.; Gallagher, James D.; Gamelin, Daniel R. (2013-09-01). "Photoconductive ZnO films with embedded quantum dot or ruthenium dye sensitizers". APL Materials. 1 (3): 032107. doi:10.1063/1.4820428.
  15. ^ Bradshaw, Liam R.; May, Joseph W.; Dempsey, Jillian L.; Li, Xiaosong; Gamelin, Daniel R. (2014-03-19). "Ferromagnetic excited-state Mn${}^{2+}$ dimers in Zn${}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}$MnxSe quantum dots observed by time-resolved magnetophotoluminescence". Physical Review B. 89 (11): 115312. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.115312.
  16. ^ Davenport, Matt (2017-08-15). "Jillian Dempsey – Talented 12". Chemical and Engineering News. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  17. ^ "2015 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Eighteen Researchers". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  18. ^ "Dempsey, Jillian Lee". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  19. ^ "CAREER: Mechanistic Investigations of Excited-State Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-26.


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