Graduate Research Assistant

Alicia Altemose, Ph.D.

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State College, PA 16801

www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-altemose

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Summary of Qualifications

Self-motivated materials chemist with experience in designing innovative materials including light-powered micromotors, with applications in optical and memory devices, and catalytic micropumps, capable of improving the efficiency of chemical sensors. Leader of research collaborations involving several departments and universities, consisting of team members with varying backgrounds and skills. Project management skills allow for planning experiments efficiently, consulting with experts in other fields, and brainstorming future directions.

Education

Ph.D. Chemistry, GPA: 3.96 Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA

B.S. Chemistry and Mathematics with Honors, GPA: 3.98 Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

Sept. 2019

May 2014

Relevant Technical Skills

Nanofabrication techniques

Inorganic particle synthesis

Microfluidic techniques

Optical and confocal microscopy

Electron microscopy

Particle sizing (DLS)

Zeta potential measurement

UV/Vis spectrophotometry

Laboratory safety management

Chemical inventory management

Image/video processing

COMSOL, MATLAB, python

Relevant Business and Social Skills

Leadership of research collaborations

Project management experience

Climate and diversity improvement

Mentoring and training experience

Statistical analysis

Oral/written communication

Educational and Professional Development

Graduate Research Assistant, Mentor: Ayusman Sen 2014 – Present

Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Discovery of a novel system of colloids exhibiting tunable oscillatory motion.

Design of innovative catalytic micropump arrays for improvement of chemical sensors.

Development of self-annealing colloidal crystals for optical applications.

Presentations at several ACS meetings and Gordon Research Conferences.

Undergraduate Researcher, Mentor: Kevin Hartshorn 2013 - 2014

Department of Mathematics, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

Computational research on geometric chains as a model for protein backbones.

Findings include several theorems on geometric chains composed of 7 links.

Honors thesis and defense completed, along with various presentations on said research.

Teaching Assistant, Supervisors: Ben Lear, Kyle Schmid, Sheryl Dykstra 2015 - 2016

Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Led several laboratory sections of 20 students, held one-on-one meetings, managed grades.

Led several recitation sections of 30 students, managed group meetings, used electronic gradebooks.

Mentoring Experience

As a graduate student, I mentored and supervised one high school teacher and two undergraduate students in their research projects, along with several other graduate students via the department’s mentoring program resulting in:

A peer-reviewed article in a high-impact journal

Presentations at a professional research conference

Presentations at local research symposia

Acceptance into chosen research groups

Selected Publications

Altemose, A.; Sen, A. Chapter in Self-Organized Motion: Physicochemical Design based on Nonlinear Dynamics; The Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK, 2019; pp 250-283.

Altemose, A.; Sánchez-Farrán, M. A.; Duan, W,; Schulz, S.; Borhan, A.; Crespi, V. H.; Sen, A. Chemically controlled spatiotemporal oscillations of colloidal assemblies. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 7817–7821.

Das, S.; Shklyaev, O. E.; Altemose, A.; Shum, H.; Ortiz-Rivera, I.; Valdez, L.; Mallouk, T. E.; Balazs, A. C.; Sen, A. Harnessing catalytic pumps for directional delivery of microparticles. Nat. Commun. 2017, 8, 14384.

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