Rachel Getman

Rachel Getman
Alma mater	University of Notre Dame
Scientific career
Thesis	Simulation of NO oxidation catalysis over oxygen-covered transition metal surfaces  (2009)

Rachel B. Getman is a professor and the Bernice L. Claugus Endowed Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State University. She is known for her work examining the interface between fluids and solid materials using computational tools.

Education

Getman received her B.S. degrees in 2004 where she studied chemical engineering and business administration at Michigan Technological University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. From 2009 until 2011 Getman was a postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University. ^[1]

Career

Getman became an assistant professor at Clemson University in 2011. ^[1] In 2017, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure in Clemson University's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. ^[2] In 2020, she was awarded the Murdoch Family Endowed Professorship for prominence in research, scholarship, and teaching. ^[3] Getman was promoted to Full Professor by Clemson University in 2022. ^[4] In 2023 Getman moved to Ohio State University and was named the Bernice L. Claugus Endowed Chair in 2023. ^{[1] [5]}

Research

Getman's early research was in catalysis where she focused on how platinum facilitates changes in nitrogen oxides. ^[6] In 2024 she worked on multiscale modeling to quantify entropies of hydration in heterogeneously catalyzed systems. ^{[7] [8]} Her group developed a method that combines classical molecular dynamics with density functional theory for this purpose. ^[9]

Selected publications

• Getman, Rachel B.; Xu, Ye; Schneider, William F. (2008-07-01). "Thermodynamics of Environment-Dependent Oxygen Chemisorption on Pt(111)" . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 112 (26): 9559–9572. doi:10.1021/jp800905a. ISSN   1932-7447.
• Getman, R. B.; Schneider, W. F.; Smeltz, A. D.; Delgass, W. N.; Ribeiro, F. H. (2009-02-17). "Oxygen-Coverage Effects on Molecular Dissociations at a Pt Metal Surface" . Physical Review Letters. 102 (7) 076101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.076101. ISSN   0031-9007.
• Getman, Rachel B.; Miller, Jacob H.; Wang, Kenneth; Snurr, Randall Q. (2011-02-10). "Metal Alkoxide Functionalization in Metal−Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Ambient-Temperature Hydrogen Storage" . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115 (5): 2066–2075. doi:10.1021/jp1094068. ISSN   1932-7447.
• Getman, Rachel B.; Bae, Youn-Sang; Wilmer, Christopher E.; Snurr, Randall Q. (2012-02-08). "Review and Analysis of Molecular Simulations of Methane, Hydrogen, and Acetylene Storage in Metal–Organic Frameworks" . Chemical Reviews. 112 (2): 703–723. doi:10.1021/cr200217c. ISSN   0009-2665.
• Estejab, Ali; Cárcamo, Ricardo A. García; Getman, Rachel B. (2022-02-16). "Influence of an electrified interface on the entropy and energy of solvation of methanol oxidation intermediates on platinum(111) under explicit solvation" . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24 (7): 4251–4261. Bibcode:2022PCCP...24.4251E. doi:10.1039/D1CP05358B. ISSN   1463-9084. PMID   35107094.

Awards and honors

Getman received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2016. ^[10]

References

1. "Getman, Rachel". The Ohio State University. 2023-08-15. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
2. McAllister, Teresa (June 9, 2017). "Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Dr. Rachel Getman Promoted to Associate Professor". Clemson University. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
3. Alongi, Paul (2020-08-31). "Chemical engineer who helped break the glass ceiling receives Murdoch Family Endowed Professorship". Clemson News. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
4. Haughey, Laurie (2022-08-03). "Clemson University recognizes its newly tenured and promoted faculty". Clemson News. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
5. "Expert in molecular modeling, heterogeneous catalysis to assume prestigious chair". Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 2023-07-31. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
6. Getman, Rachel B.; Schneider, William F. (2007-01-01). "DFT-Based Characterization of the Multiple Adsorption Modes of Nitrogen Oxides on Pt(111)" . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 111 (1): 389–397. doi:10.1021/jp064841p. ISSN   1932-7447.
7. Chen, Xiuting; Getman, Rachel (2024-06-17), The Significant Differences in Solvation Thermodynamics of C1-C3 Oxygenates in Hydrophilic versus Hydrophobic Pores of a Hydrophilic Ti-FAU Zeolite Model, doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-c7x2b , retrieved 2024-06-27
8. Garcia Carcamo, Ricardo A.; Zhang, Xiaohong; Estejab, Ali; Zhou, Jiarun; Hare, Bryan J.; Sievers, Carsten; Sarupria, Sapna; Getman, Rachel B. (2023-02-17). "Differences in solvation thermodynamics of oxygenates at Pt/Al2O3 perimeter versus Pt(111) terrace sites". iScience. 26 (2): 105980. Bibcode:2023iSci...26j5980G. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.105980. ISSN   2589-0042. PMC   9900392 . PMID   36756373.
9. Bodenschatz, Cameron J.; Zhang, Xiaohong; Xie, Tianjun; Arvay, Jeremy; Sarupria, Sapna; Getman, Rachel B. (2019-04-12). "Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics". JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) (146): e59284. doi:10.3791/59284. ISSN   1940-087X. PMID   31033957.
10. "Clemson junior faculty win research awards". The Greenville News. 2016-03-16. pp. A6. Retrieved 2025-04-09.

External links

• Rachel Getman publications indexed by Google Scholar