Christy Landes

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Christy F. Landes
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NationalityAmerican
Alma mater George Mason University
Georgia Tech
Scientific career
Institutions University of Oregon
University of Texas at Austin
University of Houston
Rice University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thesis The dependence of the opto-electronic properties of CdSe nanoparticles on surface properties  (2003)

Christy F. Landes is an American physical chemist who is the Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She previously was the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Chair at Rice University. She seeks to understand the structure-function relationships in biological processes and materials. She was appointed a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow in 2019.

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Early life and education

Landes was an undergraduate student in chemistry at George Mason University. [1] She moved to Georgia Tech for her doctoral research, where she majored in physical chemistry under the supervision of Mostafa El-Sayed. [1] After earning her doctorate, Landes joined the University of Oregon as a postdoctoral researcher with Geraldine L. Richmond, where she spent one year before joining the University of Texas at Austin with Paul Barbara. [1]

Research and career

Landes joined the University of Houston at an assistant professor in 2006, and moved to Rice University in 2009. [1] She was appointed Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Chair in 2021. Her early independent work considered super-resolution single molecule spectroscopy for the characterization of biomolecules using FRET with membrane receptors and [2] diffusion within polymer brushes and porous hydrogel materials. [3] [4] She has pioneered the application of super-resolution microscopy to understand chromatography [5] and has focused on tuning the plasmonic properties of nanomaterials using electrochemistry and stimuli-responsive polymers. [6] She has also shown how silver ions disperse from the tips of gold-silver nanoparticle alloys, which may improve catalytic activity. [7] Her biophysical chemistry work has demonstrated that single-molecule approaches could be used to better understand cancer metastasis. [8]

Landes established the NSF Center for Adapting Flaws into Features (CAFF) in 2021 and serves as its director. [9] The center investigates the defects in silicon-based electronics that hold promise for improving device performance, explore the structural and optoelectronic processes that make these flaws influential, and realize technologies that incorporate and exploit these flaws. [10]

Landes was elected Chair of the Physical Chemistry Division in 2020. [1]

Landes joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023. [11]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Christy Landes". Welch. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  2. ↑ Landes, Christy F.; Rambhadran, Anu; Taylor, J Nick; Salatan, Ferandre; Jayaraman, Vasanthi (2011). "Structural landscape of isolated agonist-binding domains from single AMPA receptors". Nature Chemical Biology. 7 (3): 168–173. doi:10.1038/nchembio.523. PMC   3082477 . PMID   21297640.
  3. ↑ "Science provides new way to peer into pores". news2.rice.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  4. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1808382 - Instrument Development: 4-D Super Time Resolved Microscopy (4-D STReM) for Understanding Dynamics in Porous Materials". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  5. ↑ Calabrase, William; Bishop, Logan D. C.; Dutta, Chayan; Misiura, Anastasiia; Landes, Christy F.; Kisley, Lydia (2020). "Transforming Separation Science with Single-Molecule Methods". Analytical Chemistry. 92 (20): 13622–13629. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02572 . PMID   32936608. S2CID   221769770.
  6. ↑ Byers, Chad P.; Zhang, Hui; Swearer, Dayne F.; Yorulmaz, Mustafa; Hoener, Benjamin S.; Huang, Da; Hoggard, Anneli; Chang, Wei-Shun; Mulvaney, Paul; Ringe, Emilie; Halas, Naomi J.; Nordlander, Peter; Link, Stephan; Landes, Christy F. (2015). "From tunable core-shell nanoparticles to plasmonic drawbridges: Active control of nanoparticle optical properties". Science Advances. 1 (11) e1500988. Bibcode:2015SciA....1E0988B. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500988. PMC   4672758 . PMID   26665175.
  7. ↑ "Silver ions hurry up, then wait as they disperse". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  8. 1 2 "2019 IBB Hamill Innovation Award winners announced". news2.rice.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  9. ↑ "NSF grant kicks off Center for Adapting Flaws into Features". Rice University . Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  10. ↑ "Faculty". Center for Adapting Flaws into Features. 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  11. ↑ Crane, Tracy (17 April 2023). "Accomplished physical chemists bringing talents to UIUC". Chemistry at Illinois (Press release). Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  12. ↑ Williams, About Mike (2016-01-28). "Landes wins ACS Early Career award". Rice University News & Media. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  13. ↑ "The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society". phys-acs.org. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  14. ↑ "Christy Landes". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  15. ↑ "Department of Chemistry: Christy F. Landes". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
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