Dr. Karah Knope, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University Group website: https://knopelab.com/ Research Interests:  Our group is broadly interested in self-assembly processes, phase formation, and structure-property relationships in f-element materials. All projects have a significant synthetic component and involve the characterization of new materials. Current research areas include: Lanthanide based inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials Our group is...

Dr. Chris Anderton, Chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory https://www.pnnl.gov/people/christopher-anderton Bio: Dr. Chris Anderton is the team leader for the Biogeochemical Transformations team in PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. He has an extensive background in elucidating chemical interactions occurring across all kingdoms of life, including those within soils and the rhizosphere.    ...