Jillian Lee Dempsey

Jillian Lee Dempsey is an American inorganic chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, her work focuses on proton-coupled electron transfer, charge transfer events, and quantum dots.[2] She is the recipient of numerous awards for rising stars of chemistry, including most recently a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship[3] and a 2016 Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP).[4] Prior to working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dempsey was a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Daniel R. Gamelin at the University of Washington.[5]

Jillian Lee Dempsey
Alma mater	MIT (S.B.) (2005)[1] Caltech (Ph.D.) (2010)[1]
Spouse(s)	Alex Miller
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis	Hydrogen evolution catalyzed by cobaloximes (2010)
Doctoral advisor	Harry B. Gray
Website	chem.unc.edu/faculty/dempsey-jillian/

Awards

• 2017- Chemical & Engineering News Talented 12[6]
• 2016 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship[3]
• 2016 - Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)[4]
• 2015 - Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering[7][8]
• 2015 - NSF CAREER Award[9]

References

1. Dempsey, Jillian L.; Winkler, Jay R.; Gray, Harry B. (November 17, 2010). "Proton-Coupled Electron Flow in Protein Redox Machines". Chem. Rev. 110 (12): 7024–7039. doi:10.1021/cr100182b. PMC 3005815. PMID 21082865.
2. "Research – Dempsey Group". University of North Carolina. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
3. "Past Fellows". sloan.org. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
4. "Air Force Office of Scientific Research Awards Grants to 56 Scientists and Engineers through Young Investigator Research Program". Defense Acquisition University. 2016-01-14. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
5. "Gamelin Research Group". University of Washington. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
6. Davenport, Matt (2017-08-15). "Jillian Dempsey – Talented 12". Chemical and Engineering News. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
7. "2015 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Eighteen Researchers". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
8. "Dempsey, Jillian Lee". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
9. "CAREER: Mechanistic Investigations of Excited-State Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-26.