Appie Peterson
Appie attended the University of Missouri – Kansas City on full academic scholarship where she received her B.S. in Chemistry and B.F.A. in Dance Performance. Her undergraduate research with Prof. Xiaobo Chen focused on synthesizing nanomaterials to study photocatalytic hydrogen generation. Appie danced professionally with local Kansas City companies, and later with the San Diego Ballet. She completed her Ph.D. in Dec. 2021 at Washington University in St. Louis in the lab of Prof. Bill Tolman, funded through the NSF-CCI Center for Sustainable Polymers, which focused on mechanistic studies of Aluminum catalysts in stereoselective ring-opening polymerizations. She joined the Glenn T. Seaborg Center under the co-advisement of Dr. Stefan Minasian and Prof. Rebecca Abergel at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 2022, focusing on the preparation of actinide dioxides from molecular precursors as well as transuranic separations and purifications. She is excited to join the NextGen Program as a Darleane C. Hoffman Postdoctoral Fellow under the guidance of Prof. Rebecca Abergel and develop materials with precise spectroscopic signatures towards the efforts of nuclear forensics and nonproliferation.
Area of Interest
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
- Other Chemical Sciences
