First experiment of the Wentz Lab is underway!

Today we got our brand new Heidolph rotovap set up!

Today we had our first group meeting where we discussed new project directions and key literature. Can't wait to see where these ideas go in the hands of my new team. Stay tuned for student bios and our first group photo later this semester! #newPI

2023 #AOBPostdoc Kelsie Wentz, PhD talks about making new silicon containing polymers, the formation of free electrons & the Beckman research experience in our latest “Five Questions” feature.
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Friday was a bittersweet day ending my time as a postdoc in the Klausen lab. I'm so grateful for @bekkaklausen.bsky.social ongoing mentorship and guidance. It was an amazing experience learning new skills and mentoring younger scientists. Excited to start my independent career at Indiana University!

The Wentz lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining a brand new research group and interested in the synthesis of new functional main-group based heterocyles and polymers can apply at the link below. Please share!
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It's not really a secret anymore, but I wanted to wait until the paperwork was all signed. I'll be starting at Indiana University this fall as an assistant professor in chemistry! The Harvey Group will focus on synthesis and spectroscopy of inorganic nanomaterials. Stay tuned for more.

I'm incredibly grateful for amazing mentors, @rjgilliard.bsky.social, @bekkaklausen.bsky.social, and Stephen Craig for their ongoing support of my academic career! I'm also so thankful to the Klausen Lab and @gilliardgroup.bsky.social for their friendship and support!

I'm thrilled to share that I will be starting my independent career at Indiana University in July! The Wentz lab will interface synthetic chemistry with materials science, while providing strategies to access new generations of main-group molecular building blocks and macromolecular materials.

Excited to share our work on the direct synthesis and redox properties of 9-methylsilafluorene dimer published in @daltontrans.rsc.org! This is some of the early work funded by my AOB PD Fellowship, hoping to get some more of this work submitted soon!

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Thrilled to be selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Chemistry this summer!

Let the cringe begin! 😂

Starting 2025 off with a Perspective article in @acsjacs.bsky.social on the Precise Synthesis of Complex Si-Si Molecular Frameworks! A timely perspective on synthetic strategies to build silanes driven by mechanistic insights!
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The Italian Florentine cookies for tomorrow's cookie party turned out pretty good. #chemistswhobake

One of my work from home buddies. Today marks 1 year since adopting Sushi! 🩶🍣🐈‍⬛

Please spread around! Johns Hopkins is hosting an NSF-REU site titled Research on Sustainable Energy
Technology and Systems (ROSETAS). Consider having your undergraduates apply! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social @energyathopkins.bsky.social #chemsky #STEM

Making my first official post over here to introduce myself. I'm currently an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Lab in Prof. Rebekka Klausen's Lab. I previously obtained my Ph.D. under the mentorship of Prof. Robert Gilliard at U of Virginia.