Professional Career

• 2001 - present, Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 1999 - 2001, Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Education

• 1999: Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• 1992: B.A. Chemistry, Grinnell College, Grinnell. IA

Awards 2002 LANL Postdoctoral Team Award, 2002 2001 LANL Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement LANL Director's Funded Postdoctoral Fellow 1997 MRS Graduate Student Award Finalist NASA Graduate Student Researchers Fellow Phi Beta Kappa, Grinnell College National Merit Scholarship Contact Information MS-J585, C-PCS Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 phone: (505) 665-1246 fax: (505) 667-7289 e-mail: jenn@lanl.gov

Current Research

My current research interests include the development of new, nanostructured materials (specifically, semiconductor nanocrystal-quantum-dot based) for a broad range of applications: optoelectronics, telecommunications, sensors, artificial photosynthesis, and threat reduction. I am concentrating on methods for synthesizing new nanocrystal compositions and shapes, especially infrared emitters, and on strategies for promoting interactions between nanocrystals and between them and their immediate environment (e.g., energy and charge transfer). The quantum dots are prepared using traditional and nontraditional colloidal chemical methods that yield highly crystalline, highly monodisperse nanocrystals with controlled optical and electronic properties. My previous research experience was in the areas of catalyzed, low-temperature, solution-based preparations of crystalline III-VI semiconductors and spray chemical vapor deposition of chalcopyrite semiconductor thin films.

I am co-chair of the Nanoscience and Technology working group “Chemistry and Physics of Nanostructures Built from Inorganic Nanoparticles (Semiconductor, Metal, and Magnetic), created to identify nanoscience research challenges that will be pursued at LANL and, ultimately, through the joint LANL-SANDIA Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT). I also help to coordinate LANL nano-synthesis activities such as the “Nanoscience and Technology Deputy Director of Synthesis and Assembly.”