Rebekka Klausen

Rebekka Klausen is an American chemist who is the Second Decade Society Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Her research considers carbon and silicon-based nanomaterials for optoelectronic devices. She was a finalist for the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

Rebekka Sidsel Klausen
Alma materHarvard University
Boston College
Scientific career
InstitutionsColumbia University
Johns Hopkins University
ThesisBenzoic acid and thiourea co-catalysis (2010)
Websitepages.jh.edu/chem/klausen/

Early life and education

Klausen is from Brookline, Massachusetts. She was an undergraduate student in biochemistry at Boston College. She moved to Harvard University as a graduate student, where she worked under the supervision of Eric Jacobsen and studied asymmetric Pictet–Spengler reactions.[1][2][3] She moved to New York for postdoctoral research, joining the lab of Colin Nuckolls at Columbia University.[1] There, she studied the conductive properties of molecules containing a 1-D chain of silicon atoms,[4] as well as other fluorene-derivatives that can act as molecular wires.[5]

Research and career

Klausen began her independent career at Johns Hopkins University in 2013. Her research group studies organosilicon compounds, including poly(cyclosilane)s.[6][7] Klausen initially looked to create a bottom-up fabrication process for the realization of silicon-based materials, and to develop cyclo-silane building blocks for their polymerization.[8][9][10][11] Borrowing from the principles of carbon-based synthesis, Klausen has achieved precise control of the structure of silicon-based polymers.[8] She was named as the Second Decade Society Associate Professor in 2019. Klausen is part of the National Science Foundation Polymer Optimization Centre.[12][13]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "Rebekka Klausen". Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  2. Klausen, Rebekka S.; Jacobsen, Eric N. (2009-02-19). "Weak Brønsted Acid−Thiourea Co-catalysis: Enantioselective, Catalytic Protio-Pictet−Spengler Reactions". Organic Letters. 11 (4): 887–890. doi:10.1021/ol802887h. ISSN 1523-7060. PMC 2664157. PMID 19178157.
  3. Klausen, Rebekka S.; Kennedy, C. Rose; Hyde, Alan M.; Jacobsen, Eric N. (2017-09-06). "Chiral Thioureas Promote Enantioselective Pictet–Spengler Cyclization by Stabilizing Every Intermediate and Transition State in the Carboxylic Acid-Catalyzed Reaction". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139 (35): 12299–12309. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b06811. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 5674793. PMID 28787140.
  4. Klausen, Rebekka S.; Widawsky, Jonathan R.; Steigerwald, Michael L.; Venkataraman, Latha; Nuckolls, Colin (2012-03-14). "Conductive Molecular Silicon". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134 (10): 4541–4544. doi:10.1021/ja211677q. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 22352896.
  5. Klausen, R. S.; Widawsky, J. R.; Su, T. A.; Li, H.; Chen, Q.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Venkataraman, L.; Nuckolls, C. (2014-03-04). "Evaluating atomic components in fluorene wires". Chemical Science. 5 (4): 1561–1564. doi:10.1039/C4SC00064A. ISSN 2041-6539.
  6. Press, Eric M.; Marro, Eric A.; Surampudi, Sravan K.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Tang, Joel A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2017-01-09). "Synthesis of a Fragment of Crystalline Silicon: Poly(Cyclosilane)". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56 (2): 568–572. doi:10.1002/anie.201610208. OSTI 1533091. PMID 27897420.
  7. Fang, Fan; Jiang, Qifeng; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2022-05-04). "Poly(cyclosilane) Connectivity Tunes Optical Absorbance". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144 (17): 7834–7843. doi:10.1021/jacs.2c01820. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 35467855. S2CID 248389390.
  8. "Early Career: Mesoscale Fragments of Crystalline Silicon by Chemical Synthesis".
  9. "Chemists build a zoo of new polymer building blocks". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  10. Marro, Eric A.; Folster, Carlton P.; Press, Eric M.; Im, Hoyeon; Ferguson, John T.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2019-11-06). "Stereocontrolled Syntheses of Functionalized cis – and trans -Siladecalins". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141 (44): 17926–17936. doi:10.1021/jacs.9b09902. ISSN 0002-7863. OSTI 1570378. PMID 31600060. S2CID 204244421.
  11. Marro, Eric A.; Press, Eric M.; Siegler, Maxime A.; Klausen, Rebekka S. (2018-05-09). "Directional Building Blocks Determine Linear and Cyclic Silicon Architectures". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140 (18): 5976–5986. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b02541. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 29635912.
  12. "NSF Creates Polymer Chemistry Optimization Center at Duke for Future Materials". today.duke.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  13. Wallach, Rachel (2021-09-22). "Johns Hopkins chemist explores longer-lasting, sustainable materials with NSF-funded team". The Hub. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  14. "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships" (PDF).
  15. "AAAS' Marion Milligan Mason Awards Go to Five Female Scientists | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  16. "Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards: 2017 Awardees". VPR at JHU. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  17. "Rebekka Klausen Receives NSF CAREER Award". Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  18. "2021 ACS National Award winners—Part III – C&EN". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  19. "Blavatnik Family Foundation, New York Academy of Sciences Name 31 Finalists for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists". blavatnikawards.org. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  20. "Rebekka Klausen is finalist for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists". Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
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