Samuel Blau
- Program Years: 2012-2016
- Academic Institution: Harvard University
- Field of Study: Chemical Physics
- Academic Advisor: Alan Aspuru-Guzik
- Practicum(s):
Argonne National Laboratory (2014) - Degree(s):
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 2018
Masters in Physics, Harvard University, 2016
B.S. in Chemistry, Haverford College, 2012
Current Status
- Status: Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Research Area: Chemical Physics, Computational Chemistry, Reaction Cascades in Batteries
Publications
Spotte-Smith, E. W. C.; Yu, P.; Blau, S. M.; Prasher, R. S.; Jain, A. Aqueous Diels-Alder reactions for thermochemical storage and heat transfer fluids identified using density functional theory. J. Comp. Chem. 2020, 41 (24), 2137-2150Otto, J. P.; Wang, L.; Pochorovski, I.; Blau, S. M.; Aspuru-Guzik, A.; Bao, Z.; Engel, G. S.; Chiu, M. Disentanglement of excited-state dynamics with implications for FRET measurements: two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of a BODIPY-functionalized cavitand. Chem. Sci. 2018, 9 (15), 3694-3703
Blau, S. M.; Bennett, D. I. G.; Kreisbeck, C.; Scholes, G. D.; Aspuru-Guzik, A. Local protein solvation drives direct down-conversion in phycobiliprotein PC645 via incoherent vibronic transport. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2018, 115 (15), E3342-E3350
Markovich, T.; Blau, S. M.; Sanders, J. N.; Aspuru-Guzik, A. Benchmarking Compressed Sensing, Super- Resolution, and Filter Diagonalization. Int. J. Quantum Chem. 2016, 116, 1097-1106.
Markovich, T.; Blau, S. M.; Parkhill, J.; Kreisbeck, C.; Sanders, J. N.; Andrade, X.; Aspuru-Guzik, A. Accelerating the Computation of Bath Spectral Densities with Super-Resolution. Theor. Chem. Acc. 2016, 135, 215.
Chang, K. B.; Smith, M. D.; Blau, S. M.; Glor, E. C.; Zeller, M.; Schrier, J.; Norquist, A. J. Steric-Induced Layer Flection in Templated Vanadium Tellurites. Cryst. Growth Des. 2013
Smith, M. D.; Blau, S. M.; Chang, K. B.; Tran, T. T.; Zeller, M.; Halasyamani, P. S.; Schrier, J.; Norquist, A. J. Inducing Polarity in [VO3]nn- Chain Compounds Using Asymmetric Hydrogen-Bonding Networks. J. Solid State Chem. 2012, 195, 86-93.
Smith, M. D.; Blau, S. M.; Change. K. B.; Zeller, M.; Schrier, J.; Norquist, A. J. Beyond Charge Density Matching: The Role of C-H-O Interactions in the Formation of Templated Vanadium Tellurites. Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 4213-4219.
Olshansky, J. H.; Blau, S. M.; Zeller, M.; Schrier, J.; Norquist, A. J. Understanding an Order-Disorder Phase Transition in Ionothermally Synthesized Gallium Phosphates. Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11, 3065- 3071.
Glor, E. C.; Blau, S. M.; Yeon, J.; Zeller, M.; Halasyamani, P. S.; Schrier, J.; Norquist, A. J. [R- C7H16N2][V2Te2O10] and [S-C7H16N2][V2Te2O10]; new polar templated vanadium tellurite enantiomers. J. Solid State Chem. 2011, 184, 1445-1450.
Choyke, S. J.; Blau, S. M.; Larner, A. A.; Narducci Sarjeant, A.; Yeon, J.; Halasyamani, P. S.; Norquist, A. J. Noncentrosymmetry in New Templated Gallium Fluorophosphates. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 11277- 11282.
Awards
2020 - Early Career Development LDRD at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab2013 - Karplus Prize in Chemical Physics
2012 - Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Haverford College
2012 - High Honors in Chemistry from Haverford College
2012 - Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society
2012 - DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
2012 - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Declined)
2011 - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Fellowship
2011 - Stanley B. Gould 1949 Pre-Medical Scholarship
2010 - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Fellowship
2010 - Stanley B. Gould 1949 Pre-Medical Scholarship
2009 - Kovaric Foundation Summer Research Fellowship