Modeling Electronic Processes

Lisa Fredin employs quantum mechanics to examine the chemical physics of catalytic materials.

With a changing climate, there is a need to develop more sustainable, environmentally friendly materials. Focusing on the development of models at the edge of theory and experiment, quantum chemist Lisa Fredin explores the chemical physics of catalytic materials to improve our fundamental understanding of emerging substances.

Fredin, assistant professor of chemistry, uses quantum mechanics to study the photochemical, electronic and magnetic properties of materials and improve scientists’ understanding of the processes involved during catalysis, charge and energy transfer, and electron or hole transport in complex electronic systems. Her team uses supercomputing power and method development to increase the reliability of experimental comparison and theoretically predicted materials from atomic to nanoscale. From this, they develop models to investigate fundamental electronic processes.

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