Olivia received her B.S. in chemistry from Brandeis University in 2016 where she performed undergraduate research under Dr. Casey Wade (OSU) on the design and synthesis of pyrazolate-based metal organic frameworks. She completed her Ph.D. with Prof. Oleg V. Ozerov at Texas A&M University where she studied the chemistry of highly Lewis acidic cations coupled with halogenated carborane anions for hydrodefluorination. As a postdoc, she worked with Dr. Stefan Minasian using soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and microscopy to understand metal-ligand interactions in f-element organometallics with C K-edge XAS. She is currently working under the advice of David K. Shuh as a Hoffman Postdoctoral Fellow using radiochemical synthesis and X-ray spectromicroscopy techniques to characterize and better understand the reactivity of material signatures in the environment.
Area of Interest
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Other Chemical Sciences
- Organic Chemistry
- Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering
