Dr. Elizabeth M. Y. Lee

Former Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2018); Advisors: William A. Tisdale and Adam P. Willard
• M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice (M.S.CEP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2018)
• B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) (2012)
• B.A. in Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) (2012)

Professional Affiliations

• Member of American Physical Society (APS)
• Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Areas of Interest

• Solid-state spin defects for quantum information science
• First-principles molecular dynamics with enhanced sampling
• Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
• Chemical reactions on surfaces

Experience

• 2018-present, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Chicago (Advisors: G. Galli and J. de Pablo)
• 2014: Consultant, General Mills, Minneapolis, MN - Developed automatic, non-destructive grain sorting device using machine learning algorithms
• 2014: Consultant, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland - Synthesized microparticles using microfluidic-based reactor for optimal drug release
• 2013-2018: Graduate Researcher and Teaching Assistant, MIT
• 2012-2017: Energy Fellow, NSF Graduate Fellow, MIT
• 2011-2012: Undergraduate Researcher, Prof. David R. Yarkony's Group, Chemistry Department, JHU
• 2011 Summer: NSF REU Researcher, Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik's Group, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, Harvard University
• 2009-2011: Undergraduate Researcher, Prof. Jeffrey J. Gray's Group, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, JHU

Publications

• E. M.Y. Lee, A. Yu, J. J. de Pablo, and G. Galli.
  Stability and molecular pathways to the formation of spin defects in silicon carbide
  Nature Communications (accepted), 2021, arXiv:2109.06420
• E. M.Y. Lee*, T. Ludwig*, B. Yu, A. Singh, F. Gygi, J. K. Nørskov, and J. J. de Pablo. (*equal contribution)
  Neural network sampling of the free energy landscape for nitrogen dissociation on ruthenium
  Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12, 2954-2962, (2021)
• E. M.Y. Lee and A. P. Willard
  Solving the trivial crossing problem while preserving the nodal symmetry of the wavefunction
  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 15, 4332 (2019)
• R. H. Gilmore, Y. Liu, N. S. Dahod, W. Shcherbakov-Wu, E. M.Y. Lee, M. C. Weidman, H. Li, J. C. Grossman, and W. A. Tisdale.
  Epitaxial dimers and auger-assisted de-trapping in PbS quantum dot solids
  Matter, 1, 250 (2019)
• E. M. Y. Lee, W. A. Tisdale, and A. P. Willard.
  Perspective: Nonequilibrium dynamics of localized and delocalized excitons in colloidal quantum dot solids
  Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 36, 068501 (2018)
• R. H. Gilmore, S. W. Winslow, E. M. Y. Lee, M. N. Ashner, K. G. Yager, A. P. Willard, and W. A. Tisdale.
  Inverse temperature dependence of charge carrier hopping in quantum dot solids
  ACS Nano, 12, 7741-7749 (2018)
• Y. Xu*, X. Wang*, J. Zhou, B. Song, Z. Jiang, E. M.Y. Lee, S. Huberman, K. K. Gleason, and G. Chen (*equal contribution).
  Molecular engineered conjugated polymer with high thermal conductivity
  Science Advances, 4, eaar3031 (2018)
• E. M.Y. Lee, A. J. Mork, A. P. Willard, and W. A. Tisdale.
  Including surface ligand effects in continuum elastic models of nanocrystal vibrations
  The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 044711 (2017)
• R. H. Gilmore, E. M.Y. Lee, M. C. Weidman, A. P. Willard, and W. A. Tisdale.
  Charge carrier hopping dynamics in homogeneously broadened PbS quantum dot solids
  Nano Letters, 17, 893-901 (2017)
• A. J. Mork, E. M.Y. Lee, N. S. Dahod, A. P. Willard, and W. A. Tisdale.
  Modulation of low-frequency acoustic vibrations in semiconductor nanocrystals through choice of surface ligand
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7, 4213-4216 (2016)
• A. J. Mork, E. M.Y. Lee, and W. A. Tisdale.
  Temperature dependence of acoustic vibrations of CdSe and CdSe-CdS core-shell nanocrystals measured by low-frequency Raman spectroscopy
  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18, 28797 (2016)
• I. Matlahov, T. Iline-Vul, M. Abayev, E. M.Y. Lee, M. Nadav-Tsubery, K. Keinan-Adamsky, J. J. Gray, and G. Goobes.
  Interfacial mineral-peptide properties of a mineral binding peptide from osteonectin and bone-like apatite
  Chemistry of Materials, 27, 5562-5569 (2015)
• E. M.Y. Lee, W. A. Tisdale, and A. P. Willard.
  Can disorder enhance incoherent exciton diffusion?
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119, 9501-9509 (2015)
• E. M.Y. Lee and W. A. Tisdale.
  Determination of exciton diffusion length by transient photoluminescence quenching and its application to quantum dot films
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 9005-9015 (2015)
• G. M. Akselrod*, F. Prins*, L. V. Poulikakos, E. M.Y. Lee, M. C. Weidman, A. J. Mork, A. P. Willard, V. Bulovic, and W. A. Tisdale (*equal contribution).
  Subdiffusive exciton transport in quantum dot solids
  Nano Letters, 14, 3556-3562 (2014)
• E. M.Y. Lee, X. Zhu, and D. R. Yarkony.
  On the electronic structure of the low lying electronic states of vanadium trioxide
  The Journal of Chemical Physics, 139, 044303 (2013)
• M. A. Watson, D. Rapport, E. M.Y. Lee, R. Olivares-Amaya, and A. Aspuru-Guzik.
  Electronic structure calculations in arbitrary electrostatic environments
  The Journal of Chemical Physics, 136, 024101 (2012)