Reaction: The challenge of open-shell transition metal catalysis in “systems chemistry”

Professor Heather J. Kulik is a professor in chemical engineering and chemistry at MIT. She received her BE in chemical engineering from the Cooper Union in 2004 and her PhD from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 2009. She completed postdocs at Lawrence Livermore and Stanford prior to joining MIT as a faculty member in 2013. Her research in computational inorganic chemistry has been recognized by an ONR YIP, a DARPA Director’s fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Fellowship, an AIChE CoMSEF Impact Award, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship from TU Munich, among others.