Lecturer
Year Started at JMU: 2025
d9prhf@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Pronouns: She/They
Research Areas
- Innovative teaching practices and course design for general chemistry courses
- Light-matter interactions with metallic and metal-like materials
- Top-down fabrication and bottom-up synthesis of novel nanomaterials design
- Use of ultrafast spectroscopy to monitor energy transfer in nanoscale materials
Courses
- Concepts of Chemistry (CHEM 120)
- General Chemistry I Lab (CHEM 131L)
Education
- PhD in Physical Chemistry, 2024, Northwestern University
- HBS in Physical Chemistry and Chemistry Education, 2019, University of Utah
Select Publications
- C. D. Coplan, N. E. Watkins, X-M. Lin, R. D. Schaller, 'Scalable and Adaptable two-ligand co-solvent transfer methodology for gold bipyramids to organic solvents', Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6 (19), 4877-4884.
- Q. Liu, D. Ge, F. Wackenhut, C. D. Coplan, C. Cherqui, M. Brecht, X-M. Lin, G. C. Schatz, R. D. Schaller, P-M. Adam, R. Bachelot, A. J. Meixner, 'Revealing the Three-Dimensional Orientation and Interplay between Plasmons and Interband Transitions for Single Gold Bipyramids by Photoluminescence Excitation Pattern Imaging', J. Phys. Chem. C., 2021, 125, 26978-269853.
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
