Principal Investigator
Professor Madalyn R. Radlauer joined the San Jose State University Chemistry Department
as an Assistant Professor in August 2017. Originally from New Orleans, LA, she first
came to the Bay Area for her undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Stanford University
where she worked in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Waymouth and learned how to make
and purify small molecules. During her doctoral studies at Caltech with Prof. Theodor
Agapie, she synthesized bimetallic polymerization catalysts and studied mechanism
and the effects of proximity. After finishing her PhD in 2014, she moved to Minneapolis,
MN and completed a 3-year postdoctoral position with Prof. Marc Hillmyer at the University
of Minnesota – Twin Cities where she was a Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellow. During
these three years, in addition to research about polymers, she was the co-lead for
the Women in Science and Engineering Initiative.
Prof. Radlauer is very excited to be working at 91ÁÔÆæ where she teaches inorganic, analytical, and polymer chemistry and does independent research with undergraduate and master’s students. Her current research interests are around facilitating challenging reactions relevant to fuel production and human health by using a combination of (small molecule) organometallic catalysts and polymeric (big molecule) frameworks.
