Emily A. Carter Explained

Birth Place:Los Gatos, California
Fields:Physical chemistry
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Thesis Title:Finesse in Quantum Chemistry: Accurate Energetics Relevant for Reaction Mechanisms
Thesis Url:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-11212003-111159
Thesis Year:1987
Doctoral Advisor:William Andrew Goddard III
Doctoral Students:Todd Martínez
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Website:https://www.pppl.gov/research/applied-materials-and-sustainability-sciences

Emily A. Carter is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE), and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She is also a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), serving as Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences.

Among other honors, Carter is an elected foreign member of The Royal Society (2024), and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022), the National Academy of Inventors (2014), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), the Institute of Physics (2004), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), the American Vacuum Society (1995),[1] the American Physical Society (1994), and the American Chemical Society.[2] She is also an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (2020), the National Academy of Engineering (2016),[3] International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2009),[4] [5] the National Academy of Sciences (2008).[6]

Biography

Emily Carter received a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 (graduating Phi Beta Kappa). She earned her PhD in physical chemistry in 1987 from the California Institute of Technology, where she worked with William Andrew Goddard III, studying homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.[7] [8] [9] During her postdoc at the University of Colorado, Boulder, she worked with James T. Hynes carrying out studies on the dynamics of (photo-induced) electron transfer in solution. She also worked with James Hynes, Giovanni Ciccotti, and Ray Kapral to develop the widely used Blue Moon ensemble, a rare-event sampling method for condensed matter simulations.[10] [11] [12]

From 1988 to 2004, she held professorships in chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. During those years, she was the Dr. Lee's visiting research fellow in the Sciences at Christ Church, Oxford (1996), a visiting scholar in the department of physics at Harvard University (1999), and a visiting associate in aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (2001). She moved to Princeton University in 2004.[13]  In 2006, she was named Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor. From 2009 to 2014, she was co-director of the Department of Energy Frontier Research Center on Combustion Science. She became the founding director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment in 2010, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in 2011, and dean of the school of engineering and applied science in 2016. After a national search, Prof. Carter served from 2016 to 2019 as Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment. She was also a professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She was an associated faculty member in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the department of chemistry, the department of chemical and biological engineering, the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE), the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM). She was the founding director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment from 2010 to 2016.[14]  She served as UCLA's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost (EVCP) from 2019 to 2021 and was Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.[15] She is currently a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), serving as Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences.[16]

Research

Carter has made significant contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry and physics, including the development of ab initio quantum chemistry methods,[17] methods for accurate description of molecules at the quantum level, and an algorithm for identifying transitional states in chemical reactions.[18] She pioneered the combination of ab initio quantum chemistry with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations (KMC), molecular dynamics (MD), and quasi-continuum solid mechanics simulations relevant to the study of surfaces and interfaces of materials. She has extensively investigated the chemical and mechanical causes and mechanisms of failure in materials such as silicon, germanium, iron and steel, and proposed methods for protecting materials from failure.

She has developed fast methods for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) that can be applied to large numbers of atoms[19] as well as embedded correlated wavefunction theory for the study of local condensed matter electronic structure.[20] [21] This work has relevance to the understanding of photoelectrocatalysis.[22] Her current research focuses on the understanding and design of materials for sustainable energy.[23] Applications include conversion of sunlight to electricity, clean and efficient use of biofuels and solid oxide fuel cells, and development of materials for use in fuel-efficient vehicles and fusion reactors.[24]

Carter's research is supported by multiple grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. She was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering (2016) for the development of quantum chemistry computational methods for the design of molecules and materials for sustainable energy.

Selected publications

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Society Honors . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314034305/http://avs.org/Awards-Recognition/Society-Honors/Fellow-of-the-Society . 14 March 2016 . 21 March 2016 . AVS.
  2. Web site: ACS Fellows Program - American Chemical Society . 2016-10-11 . American Chemical Society.
  3. Web site: NAE Members . 21 March 2016 . National Academy of Engineering.
  4. Web site: Emery . Chris . July 29, 2009 . Carter elected to International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science . 21 March 2016 . Princeton University.
  5. Web site: Aksay, Carter named National Academy of Inventors Fellows . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160409165708/http://www.princeton.edu/research/news/archive/index.xml?id=14141 . 9 April 2016 . 26 March 2016 . Princeton University.
  6. Web site: Podcast Interview: Emily Carter . 21 March 2016 . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  7. Finesse In Quantum Chemistry: Accurate Energetics Relevant for Reaction Mechanisms . 1987 . California Institute of Technology . PhD . Carter . Emily Ann . . 1014494990.
  8. Web site: The Carter Group. Princeton University. 23 October 2015.
  9. Web site: Emily Ann Carter. Princeton University. 26 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160409150310/https://carter.princeton.edu/files/2016/03/EAC_CV_March-14-2016.pdf. 9 April 2016. dead.
  10. Carter . E.A. . Ciccotti . Giovanni . Hynes . James T. . Kapral . Raymond . April 1989 . Constrained reaction coordinate dynamics for the simulation of rare events . dead . Chemical Physics Letters . 156 . 5 . 472–477 . 1989CPL...156..472C . 10.1.1.637.2883 . 10.1016/S0009-2614(89)87314-2 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160409134025/https://carter.princeton.edu/files/2015/08/EAC-019.pdf . 2016-04-09 . 2016-03-26.
  11. January 2008 . Autobiography of James T. (Casey) Hynes . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B . 112 . 2 . 191–194 . 10.1021/jp710517n.
  12. Book: Madsen . Lynnette . Successful women in ceramics and glass science and engineering . 2014 . John Wiley . 978-1118733608 . [S.l.] . 29–36 . 21 March 2016.
  13. Web site: Emily A. Carter . 2024-01-29 . Office of the Dean of the Faculty . en.
  14. Web site: Emily Carter . 2024-01-31 . Princeton Environmental Research . en.
  15. Web site: Biography EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLOR & PROVOST EMILY A. CARTER . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20191227204356/https://www.evc.ucla.edu/biography . 2019-12-27 . 2019-12-27 . www.evc.ucla.edu.
  16. Web site: Leadership . 2024-01-31 . Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory . en.
  17. Carter . E. A. . 8 August 2008 . Challenges in Modeling Materials Properties Without Experimental Input . Science . 321 . 5890 . 800–803 . 2008Sci...321..800C . 10.1126/science.1158009 . 18687955 . 206512850 . 26 March 2016 . 8 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160408184123/http://pcss.xmu.edu.cn/old/users/xlu/group/download/modeling_materials.pdf . dead .
  18. Web site: Carter . Emily A. . April 17, 1997 . Final Technical Report for AFOSR Grant No. F49620-93-1-0145 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160408030613/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a325655.pdf . April 8, 2016 . 26 March 2016 . Defense Technical Information Center.
  19. Web site: Adarlo . Sharon . Emily Carter is first woman and first Princeton professor to win Hirschfelder Prize . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151031015028/http://acee.princeton.edu/news/emily-carter-is-first-woman-and-first-princeton-professor-to-win-hirschfelder-prize/ . October 31, 2015 . October 28, 2015 . Princeton University.
  20. Libisch . Florian . Huang . Chen . Carter . Emily A. . 16 September 2014 . Embedded Correlated Wavefunction Schemes: Theory and Applications . Accounts of Chemical Research . 47 . 9 . 2768–2775 . 10.1021/ar500086h . 24873211.
  21. Sharifzadeh . Sahar . Huang . Patrick . Carter . Emily A. . March 2009 . All-electron embedded correlated wavefunction theory for condensed matter electronic structure . Chemical Physics Letters . 470 . 4–6 . 347–352 . 2009CPL...470..347S . 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.01.072.
  22. Web site: Renewable Fuels and Chemicals from Photoelectrocatalysis . 26 March 2016 . University of Wisconsin-Madison . 8 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160408011742/https://www.chem.wisc.edu/content/hirschfelder-lectures-0 . dead .
  23. Web site: Five Questions with Emily Carter: Seeking Sustainable Energy Solutions . 21 March 2016 . Princeton University.
  24. Web site: Kavli Foundation Lecture Series . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160407230025/http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/spring-2016/program-overview/kavli-lecture-series.html . 7 April 2016 . 26 March 2016 . ACS Chemistry for Life . American Chemical Society.
  25. Web site: Emily A. Carter Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering . 2024-01-31 . mae.princeton.edu . en.
  26. Web site: Materials Theory Award MRS Awards . 2024-01-30 . www.mrs.org.
  27. Web site: Talks and Awards Carter Group . 2024-01-30 . en-US.
  28. Web site: Mah Memorial Lectures News & Events Chemical & Biological Engineering Northwestern Engineering . 2024-01-30 . www.mccormick.northwestern.edu.
  29. Web site: Online Distinguished Harrison Shull Lectureship :Department of Chemistry . 2024-01-30 . www.chem.indiana.edu.
  30. Web site: Professor Emily Carter ForMemRS . 2024-05-20 . Royal Society . en.
  31. Web site: Schroeder . Rebekah . 2024-05-15 . PPPL Envisions a Future of Fusion Energy Solutions and Plasma Science Progress . 2024-05-16 . Community News . en.
  32. Web site: Princeton Engineering - Andlinger Center meeting spotlights next-decade technologies and design approaches for the clean energy transition . 2024-02-02 . Princeton Engineering . en-US.
  33. Web site: 2023-11-25 . Dr. Emily Carter - International leader in sustainability science at Princeton University . 2024-02-02 . Girl Power Gurus . en-US.
  34. Web site: Princeton Engineering - Ammonia fuel offers great benefits but demands careful action . 2024-02-02 . Princeton Engineering . en-US.
  35. Web site: Ali . Saleem H. . Is Energy Efficiency our Panacea for Power? . 2024-02-02 . Forbes . en.
  36. Web site: Conquering Carbon Emissions? . 2024-02-02 . us11.campaign-archive.com.

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