About the Speaker:

Kate hails from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she obtained her B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the University of Victoria. Her undergraduate research on redox active ligands with Prof. Robin Hicks sparked her initial interest in electrochemistry. Kate then ventured south to California to earn her Ph.D. degree at Stanford with Prof. Robert Waymouth, where she studied metal hydride complexes for transfer hydrogenation and electrocatalysis. Kate next moved further south to the University of California San Diego as a postdoc with Prof. Clifford Kubiak, where she studied electrochemical CO2 reduction using organic mediators and organometallic catalysts. In Fall 2018, Kate began her independent career at Rutgers University.

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